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Live weight increase was produced with a lower 

 meal equivalent when mangels were fed with either 

 maize and beans, or maize and oats. With maize 

 and peas the reverse was the case. With maize 

 meal alone, mangels did not produce live weight 

 increase with so low a meal equivalent as was the case 

 with cooked potatoes. 



Cooked v. Raw Potatoes. Experiments carried 

 out during recent years have had the effect of causing 

 some feeders to discontinue the practice of cooking 

 foods for pigs. A common opinion at the present time 

 is, that potatoes are practically the only food generally 

 used for pigs, that should be cooked. 



Professor Brynner Jones, in his third Annual Report 

 (1907-8), gives the results of an interesting experiment 

 to determine the relative value of raw and cooked 

 potatoes. The average daily ration consisted of 2f Ibs. 

 potatoes, 2 Ibs. mixed barley and maize meals, " the 

 food being given cold," along with sufficient water to 

 make it of suitable consistency : the total live weight 

 increases were as follows : 



The lot receiving cooked (boiled) potatoes gave 

 50 Ibs. greater live weight increase, but the value of 

 this increase is largely swallowed up in the cost of 

 cooking potatoes. It should be noticed that the food 



