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the corn was fed alone. There was also a saving in the 

 feed required for each 100 pounds of gain. The ration 

 of 9 parts of corn and 1 of tankage proved the best. 

 With normal prices, this ration would give more profitable 

 results than corn alone. 



Evvard of the Iowa Experiment Station l fed different 

 proportions of meat-meal or tankage with corn to spring 

 pigs on alfalfa and rape with the following interesting 

 results, as shown in Table LXIX. 



TABLE LXIX. BEST PROPORTION OP TANKAGE TO FEED 

 WITH CORN TO PIGS ON RAPE AND ALFALFA 



Regarding the advisability of feeding tankage or meat- 

 meal to pigs on rape, Evvard says : " Rape requires very 

 little if any supplement. Our experience indicates, and 

 the above figures are in line with this, that about 5 per 



1 Proc. Am. Soc. Animal Nutrition : 1913. 



