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Pork Production 



1.6 pounds of corn. With normal prices for feed, this 

 would not mean a saving in the actual cost of producing 

 100 pounds of gain, but the heavier weight and the quicker 

 market finish of those fed meat-meal would insure a 

 profit. A smaller proportion of meat-meal would prob- 

 ably have been more profitable. The pigs fed shorts 

 with their corn made somewhat faster gains than those 

 given corn alone, but with the usual prices the cost of 

 gains was no cheaper. 



It is apparent from these results that when rapid gains 

 and a quick market finish are especially desired, the feed- 

 ing of a nitrogenous supplement might be profitable. 

 The excellent showing of the pigs on clover compared with 

 the other lots is about what would be expected from a 

 knowledge of its composition. 



The best proportion of tankage to feed with corn to 

 48-pound pigs when on a pasture of blue-grass and timothy 

 was tested in an experiment at the Ohio Experiment 

 Station 1 lasting 140 days. The results are shown in 

 Table LXXIV. 



TABLE LXXIV. THE BEST PROPORTION OP TANKAGE TO 

 FEED WITH CORN ON BLUE-GRASS AND TIMOTHY l 



1 Cannichael and Ridgway : Ohio Exp. Sta. Bull. 242. 



