202 RESULTS OF EXPERIMENTS IN SWINE FEEDING 



showing. The degree to which the general thrift of the animals 

 is injured by exclusive meal feeding will be reflected in the 

 relative feeding value shown by roots and grain, and this fact 

 renders extreme variations quite possible. 



Generally speaking, it may be said that sugar beets possess 

 the highest feeding value among ordinary roots, and are most 

 readily eaten by 'swine. Mangels, Swede turnips, and carrots 

 may be counted practically equal in value, but hogs eat mangels 

 with greater relish than they eat turnips. 



Potatoes. At the Wisconsin Experiment Station, 441 

 pounds of potatoes, cooked and fed to swine, proved equal to 

 100 pounds of corn meal. In " Feeds and Feeding," Henry 

 summarizes Danish experiments, where 400 pounds of potatoes 

 proved equal to 100 pounds of mixed meal. In connection with 

 these investigations, Profes'sor Henry says : " In general, we 

 may say that a bushel of corn is worth four and one-half bushels 

 of potatoes for fattening purposes when cooked and fed with 

 corn meal. Potatoes may have a higher value than the rating 

 here given, in furnishing variety in ration to growing animals." 



Potatoes must be cooked for swine, and this item of expense 

 cancels some of the advantage which they possess over roots as 

 a feed for swine. 



Pumpkins and Squashes. Pumpkins belong to the same 

 class of feeds as roots, giving bulk and succulence to the ration 

 and thus promoting thrift. J. H. GTrisdale, Central Experi- 

 mental Farm, has a high opinion of pumpkins for swine. He 

 says: "We cook them and mix meal with them, and I don't 

 think there is anything that will surpass them as a cheap 

 fattening ration." He also states that the pigs like the seeds 

 best, and that no injury comes from feeding the seeds. Ex- 

 cellent results were obtained at the New Hampshire Experiment 

 Station from feeding raw pumpkin's with meal and skim-milk. 



The Oregon Experiment Station found that a 200-pound 



