192 THE SCIENTIFIC FEEDING OF ANIMALS 



(corn, rice feed meal, tish meal, certain oil cakes, etc.) has a tendency to 

 produce soft, oily, bacon (p. 153). These objections inay be overcome 

 by limiting the fatty and oily feeding stufifs to one-third of the total con- 

 centrates, or better still displacing them entirely with barley, or by adjust- 

 ing or counteracting their effect with feeds of an opposite character like 

 palmseed cake and cocoanut cake. 



When feeding heavily with Indian corn the substitution of palmseed 

 meal for one-fifth of the corn ration has proved very effective. The 

 quantity of watery or succulent feeding stufifs like beets, beet pulp, the 

 by-products of starch manufacture and distilleries, creamery by-products, 

 etc., should be limited during the last four or five weeks of the fattening 

 period. In any event, swine should not have food that is too watery. 

 They should not be fed on thin slops exclusively. 



Potatoes should be cooked or steamed for swine. Hard grains and 

 chaff, as well as creamery by-products, distillery slops, etc., not strictly 

 fresh, and all feeding stuffs of a suspicious nature which are liable to 

 contain bacteria in large numbers, should also be steamed or cooked 

 before feeding. These materials should be administered in the form of a 

 thick, warm gruel. If slops are used, excessive dilution should be avoid- 

 ed. Grains should be fed either coarsely ground or rolled or crushed, 

 but not cooked. The daily ration should be distributed over three regu- 

 larly observed feeding periods. Troughs and all utensils should be kept 

 scrupulously clean. 



Rations for Growing, Fattening Pigs 

 (Daily Ration per 10 Head) 



A. Age, 2 to 3 Months. Average Live Weight, 40 Pounds 



1. 2. 



Skim milk 40 lbs. Whole milk 30 lbs. 



Crushed barley 8 lbs. Ground barley 8 lbs. 



Corn 41bs. Peas 61bs. 



Peas 4 lbs. Rye bran 2 lbs. 



B. Age 3 to 5 Months. Average Live Weight, 100 Pounds 



1. 2. 



Skim milk 60 lbs. Potatoes SOlbs. 



Potatoes 60 lbs. Pea meal 12 lbs. 



Rye bran 5 lbs. Barley feed meal 10 lbs. 



Corn 5 lbs. Meat meal (tankage) 1 lb. 



Ground barley 6 lbs. 



C. Age, 5 to 6 Months. Average Live Weight, 130 Pounds 



1. 2. 



Skim milk 80 lbs. Beets 60 lbs. 



Potatoes 100 lbs. Potatoes 60 lbs. 



Rye bran 8 lbs. Pea meal 8 lbs. 



Rice feed meal 4 lbs. Rye bran 10 lbs. 



Barley feed meal 6 lbs. 



Peanut cake 2 lbs. 



