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meal the reverse was the case, possibly due to the 

 potatoes depressing the digestibility of the maize. 



Danish experiments have shown again and again 

 that for bacon production, skim milk, cooked potatoes, 

 and meals give excellent results. 



Whey and Meals. Much light has been shed on 

 this point by the Kilmarnock experiments, the results 

 of which are given in the following table : 



This shows that whey and maize meal give a useful 

 combination of foods so far as live weight increase is 

 concerned. 



Barley and maize meals with whey have given very 

 good results. When increase alone is taken into 

 account, it appears best to commence with barley meal 

 and gradually substitute it with maize meal. The chief 

 drawback is, the maize tends to give a yellowish 

 coloured flesh. 



In 1909 and 1910, mixtures of barley meal with 

 maize, and barley meal with rice meal, were both fed 



