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their ajjpctites, became weak, languid, stiff in their hind 

 quarters, and, in several cases, died.. Figure 16 shows tlie 

 low protein lot of pigs of this experiment. The smaller pig 

 died the day after the photograph was taken and another 

 pig of this lot died before the photograph was taken. On 



Fig. 17. — The ration of these pigs was the .same as that of the pigs 

 shown in Figure 16 with the addition of sufficient protein of the proper 

 quality. (Illinois Experiment Station.) 



tlie other hand, pigs fed a liberal amount of blood-meal in 

 addition to corn and mineral matter made a normal growth. 

 Figure 17 shows another lot of this experiment which re- 

 ceived a sufficient amount of blood-meal to remedy the de- 

 fects of the corn protein. Figure 18 shows cross-sections of 

 some of the ])ones of a few of the pigs of this experiment. 

 Note that the bones of the medium and high protein lots 



