224 FEEDING AND MANAGEMENT 



the meal ration, and wheat middlings or bran may be used to 

 dilute the corn meal without oats. In cold weather, if sows 

 have a good deal of out-door exercise, they may be fed more 

 corn with safety than when they have to be kept pretty closely 

 confined. 



A meal ration which is preferred by the writer to all others 

 is equal parts ground oats and middlings, leaving out corn 



FIG. 50. Three-year-old Chester white sow, winner of numerous prizes. 



altogether. It is possible, however, to use a wide variety of 

 feeds, 'so long as the feeder realizes the importance of furnish- 

 ing considerable bulk and of restricting the proportion of 

 heating or highly fattening feeds. 



As in the case of the boar, the sow requires something 

 besides meal, and the furnishing of some such feeds as roots, 

 or alfalfa or red clover hay, is even more important than in 



