118 HOW TO PEED YOUR HOGS 



This ratio equals 3.94, secured by dividing 122 by 31, which 

 ratio is about right, and plenty near enough for our purpose. 



Go ahead with the mixture as determined, feeding with every 

 100 pounds of corn 50 pounds wheat flour middlings and 20 pounds 

 meatmeal tankage. These can be all mixed together, or the wheat 

 middlings and tankage might be mixed together, and fed as a slop, 

 and the corn fed dry separately, or each one may be fed separately, 

 or any other good way as the main point is for the pigs to glean all 

 without waste. 



Why Limit These Feeds? The question might immediately 

 arise, * ' Why not let growing and fattening pigs have free access to 

 all of these feeds? " That does work finely, in truth splendidly, in 

 ordinary times, but if one could buy his wheat flour middlings 

 relatively cheap, he would be at a disadvantage under a system of 

 this sort because the pigs would eat very little of the middlings, or 

 with every 20 pounds of tankage they would probably eat only 

 about 20 pounds of middlings or maybe a little more, depending 

 upon conditions ; so that to utilize the cheaper middlings, mixtures 

 will have to be resorted to. In other words, one gets into difficulty 

 by attempting to feed certain ratios and depending on the allow- 

 ance singly of feeds to do it, because the pigs naturally have ideas 

 of their own in regard to the matter of consumption. 



In closing this dissertation on building the ration we must again 

 emphasize and re-emphasize that we should have one or more of the 

 following named feeds in American rations for growing, pregnant, 

 suckling or breeding swine : 



Basic Ingredients. A. Some kind of milk (skim, butter or 

 whole). The buttermilk powder or semi-solid butermilk will fill 

 the physiological bill as well as ordinary natural milk products ex- 

 cepting, of course, that less will be required. But do not forget to 

 figure the economy of the feed on the assumption that a pound 

 each of dry matter in skimmilk,buttermilk, buttermilk powder and 

 semi-solid butermilk powder is about equally valuable. 



B. The green, tender leafy pastures of alfalfa, red clover, 

 sweet clover, other clovers, rape, bluegrass, rye, wheat, barley, 

 and possibly soy-beans, cowpeas and peanuts for all classes. Al- 

 falfa or clover hay, particularly for the brood sow or maintenance 

 hogs but not particularly so for young growing animals because too 



