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Pork Production 



made that when hogs are fed alfalfa hay in a rack it is 

 very important that it be of fine quality. 



In Table VI are given some unpublished results of 

 further feeding tests conducted at the North Platte, 

 Nebraska, sub-station by W. P. Snyder. It is an interest- 

 ing comparison of pregnant sows fed straight alfalfa hay 

 with no grain, sows fed a mixture of equal parts of corn 

 silage and cut alfalfa hay with access to alfalfa in a rack, 

 and sows fed approximately 1 per cent of their weight in 

 corn daily with alfalfa fed in a rack. 



TABLE VI. A COMPARISON OF RATIONS FOR PREGNANT Sows 

 (mostly mature) DURING 70 DAYS IN WINTER, 1914-15, 

 1915-16. 



