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relatively rich in protein, corn makes one of the best hog feeds 

 obtainable. 



3. Pasture, either grass or clover, makes a good supplement 

 to corn, clover and alfalfa being especially desirable. 



4. Very high-priced protein feeds, such as tankage and 

 meat meal, must be used in small proportions, and give best 

 relative returns when used in dry-lot feeding. 



5. When hogs are on pasture, a comparatively cheap feed, 

 such as wheat middlings, will supplement corn to better ad- 

 vantage than expensive feeds like tankage and meat meal. 



6. Where soy-beans can be grown to advantage, they con- 

 stitute a valuable feed to use as a supplement to corn. 



REVIEW, 



1. What is the need of supplementary feed to be used with corn? 



2. What is found to be the effect of blood meal and pea meal ? Why ? 



3. What is the special need of such feed as bone meal and hard-wood 

 ashes as a supplement to corn? 



4. What is found to be the effect of using wheat middlings and skim- 

 milk along with corn? 



5. What was the effect of adding soy-bean meal and wheat middlings? 



6. Of barley, shorts, meat meal, and tankage? 



7. What was the chief effect of adding meat meal to the corn ration? 



8. Of meat meal, tankage, and shorts? 



9. How did these three compare with one another? 



10. Discuss skim-milk as a supplement to corn. 



11. Give the chief results of the Nebraska experiment where alfalfa 

 pasture was studied as a factor with other supplements. 



12. Give two conclusions in the trial with tankage and linseed meal. 



13. What difference was found in comparing soy-bean meal with linseed 

 meal? 



14. What did Professor Forbes find to be the corn equivalent of linseed 

 meal? 



15. What was the effect of tankage upon the rate of gain as found 

 in the Indiana trial ? 



16. Give six important points of the " summary." 



