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winter, would seem to be insufficient to supply the re- 

 quirements of the pigs when given a full feed of corn. 



Supplements for pigs on timothy and blue-grass. 



An experiment conducted at the Iowa Experiment 

 Station compared a ration of corn alone with one made 

 up of 2 parts corn and 1 shorts, and another of 5 parts 

 corn to 1 meat-meal, for 59-pound pigs on timothy pas- 

 ture. A fourth lot of pigs on red clover was fed corn 

 alone. The experiment covered a period of 112 days, 

 beginning July 24 and closing November 13. The results 

 are shown in the following table : 



TABLE LXXIII. CORN ALONE VERSUS CORN AND A SUPPLE- 

 MENT FOR PIGS ON TIMOTHY 1 



The pigs given meat-meal with their corn were approxi- 

 mately 50 pounds heavier at the close of the experiment 

 than were those fed corn alone on timothy. Not only 

 did these pigs gain faster, but less feed was required to 

 produce a given gain. One pound of meat-meal replaced 



1 Kennedy and Robbins : Iowa Exp. Sta. Bull. 91. 



