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hog consuming 26 pounds of cooked pumpkin and a small 

 amounts of shorts gained 1.2 pounds per day. Other in- 

 vestigators have found that 273 pounds of grain and 376 

 pounds of raw pumpkin produced 100 pounds of pork. Some 

 experiments show that cooking pumpkin's does not add to their 

 value. 



The squash may be counted as equal to the pumpkin in 

 feeding value. 



Apples. Apples do not appear to possess a high feeding 

 value, but may often be used to good advantage to give variety 

 and succulence to a ration. They are perhaps most suitable 

 for mature breeding stock, but a hog should never be expected 

 to subsist upon apples as the main part of its ration. 



Skim-Milk. The results of nineteen trials with eighty- 

 eight pigs at the Wisconsin Experiment Station are well sum- 

 marized by Henry in " Feeds and Feeding." It is a well- 

 known fact that when a small proportion of skim-milk is fed 

 with meal, the milk shows a higher meal equivalent than when 

 a large proportion is fed; that is to say, it requires a smaller 

 amount of skim-milk to be equivalent to a given amount of 

 meal when a small proportion of milk to meal is used. Henry 

 summarizes the Wisconsin results as follows : 



Meal Equivalents of Skim-Milk. 



The Ontario Agricultural College reports a trial in which 

 355.6 pounds of skim-milk proved equal to 100 pounds of meal. 

 The proportion of milk to meal was about .2.5 to 1, and the 



