12G 



HARRIS ON THE PIG. 



TABLE TV. SHOWING THE WEIGHT OP EACH PIG AT THE END OF 

 THE EXPERIMENT. 



The food selected for the experiment was a mixture 

 1st, bean and lentil meal ; 2d, Indian corn-meal, and 3d, 

 bran. 



As beans and lentils are, at present, little used as food 

 for pigs in the United States, we shall not be far wrong 

 in considering them as equivalent to peas. The object of 

 the experiment was not merely to ascertain which of these 

 foods was most nutritious, but what is the best proportion 

 of feeding them. Accordingly, each of the pens had an 

 unlimited allowance of some one of these three classes of 

 foods, some of them having no other food, except in the 

 case of bran, while others were allowed a restricted 

 quantity. Thus : 



Pen 1 was allowed a mixture of equal parts of bean 

 and lentil meal ad libitum. 



Pen 2 2 Ibs. per pig, per day, of Indian corn-meal, and 

 bean and lentil mixture ad libitum,. 



Pen 3 2 Ibs. of bran per pig, per day, and bean and 

 lentil mixture ad libitum. 



Pen 4 2 Ibs. of Indian meal, 2 Ibs. of bran per pig, per 

 day, and bean and lentil mixture ad libitum. 



Pen 5 Indian corn-meal ad libitum. 



Pen 6 2 Ibs. of bean and lentil mixture, and Indian 

 meal ad libitum. 



Pen 7 2 Ibs. bran, and Indian meal ad libitum. 



Pen 8 2 Ibs. of bean and lentil mixture, 2 Ibs. bran, 

 and Indian meal ad libitum. 



