Value of Various Feeding Stuffs for Swine. 



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alone or in excess, they produce a soft pork lacking quality. Salt 

 should always be added to a ration containing beans, and the beans 

 thoroly cooked. (207) 



Cooked heans compared ivith corn meal and cooJced hearts. 



868. Soybeans. — At the Indiana Station^ Skinner compared ground 

 soybeans with wheat middlings and tankage as a feed for swine. 

 Four lots, each of 4 pigs averaging 61 lbs., were fed for 84 days 

 with the results shown in the table : 



The table shows that corn alone is a poor feed for young pigs, 

 while combined with a protein-rich feed, like the soybean, it is most 

 valuable. While in all eases the gains from the mixed feeds were 

 large, the soybean-corn meal ration proved the best. 



In another trial Skinner and CocheP compared ground soybeans 

 and linseed meal as supplements to corn meal in 2 trials lasting 60 

 and 70 days respectively. Nine pigs in all, averaging 99 lbs. in 

 weight, were fed each ration with the results averaged below: 



Ground soybeans v. linseed meal as a supplement to corn. 



