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Peanut meal versus linseed-oil meal versus tankage. 



Evvard l of the Iowa Station fed peanut meal in com- 

 parison with other supplements to growing pigs on blue- 

 grass. The feeds in each lot were supplied separately 

 in self-feeders. Each lot of pigs was fed to the average 

 weight of 165 pounds before the experiment for that lot 

 closed. The rations and the gains are shown in Table 

 CXLVIII. 



TABLE CXLVIII. PEANUT MEAL VERSUS LINSEED-OIL MEAL, 

 TANKAGE, AND OAT-MEAL AS SUPPLEMENTS TO CORN 



The peanut meal gave results in this experiment second 

 only to tankage. The author of the experiment calcu- 

 lated the peanut meal to have a money value of $64.20 

 a ton when corn is valued at $1.12 a bushel and tankage 

 at $100 a ton, when fed under the conditions of this experi- 

 ment. The peanut meal was more palatable than the 



1 Circ. letter. 



2 Average for two lots fed different brands of tankage. 



3 A by-product in the manufacture of oat-meal, probably the 

 same as oat middlings or oat shorts. 



