Investigations loith Swine. 



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the Mai, the writer is convinced that with these representatives of 

 the two leading Western breeds of swine there was practically no 

 difference in the food requirements for a given gain. 



Summing up the breed trials with swine conducted by American 

 Stations, we have the results given below: 



Tests with pure-bred swine — Various JExperiment Stations. 



■Rept,1891. tRepts. 1890-2-3-4. 



I Bui. 60. §Rept.l893. 

 1 Rept. 1894. 



Ag. College, Rept. 1896. 



The remarkably small amount of feed required to produce one 

 hundred pounds of gain with the pigs fed in the Massachusetts 

 and Vermont trials is doubtless due to the large quantity of skim 

 milk and buttermilk fed and to the age of the pigs. 



836. Cooking feed for swine. — Experiments with cooked feed 

 for pigs have been so numerous that all cannot be here presented. 



