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Feeds and Feeding. 



The table shows pea meal superior to corn meal whether fed alone 

 or in combination with wheat bran. This is made especially plain 

 in the long feeding period at the Wisconsin Station where both 

 feeds were severely tested. 



Grisdale of the Ottawa Experimental Farms^ states that pigs fed 

 solely on pea meal do not thrive and produce a hard, dry, inferior 

 pork. This valuable grain should always be fed in combination 

 with corn, barley, ground oats, shorts, etc. 



Cottrell of the Colorado Station- reports that in the San Luis 

 Valley, Colorado, field peas are seeded on unplowed ground and 

 irrigated once or twice. The vines cure on the ground, and pigs 

 turned into the fields fatten on the peas alone, an acre of good peas 

 producing about 400 lbs. of gain. Sometimes the unthreshed vines, 

 after being stacked, are fed to pigs in yards, an acre of good peas 

 producing from 600 to 800 lbs. of gain. Pork from pigs so fattened 

 is firm, sweet, and tender, with a delicious flavor. Cottrell recom- 

 mends feeding barley, wheat, potatoes, or roots once a day to pigs 

 foraging on peas. (205) 



867. Cull beans. — At the Michigan Station^ Shaw and Anderson 

 compared cooked cull table beans with a mixture of equal parts of 

 cooked beans and corn meal, feeding 26 pigs averaging 160 lbs. for 

 periods of 56 to 70 days with the results given below. The beans 

 were carefully cooked in a limited quantity of water to which salt 

 had been added. 



It is seen that, fed alone or with corn, cooked beans have a high 

 value for swine. Being unusually rich in protein, they should be 

 fed in combination with some starchy feed such as corn meal. Fed 



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