Value of Vanous Feeding Stuffs for Swine. 



533 



Pigs getting roots showed more thrift and growth, produced bacon 

 of superior quality, and showed less inclination to fatten than those 

 fed grain alone. Indeed, so great was the growing tendency that it 

 was necessary to reduce the root allow^ance when finishing the pigs 

 in order to fatten them properly. (918) 



Shaw of the Michigan Station,^ on turning pigs receiving one- 

 third of a normal grain ration into a beet field to do their own for- 

 aging, found that 1 acre of sugar beets produced 716 lbs. and 1 acre 

 of half sugar beets and half mangels 792 lbs. of gain. 



At the Utah Station- Clark fed sugar beets, wet beet pulp, and 

 beet molasses in combination with wheat shorts to 4 lots of 130-lb. 

 pigs for 48 days with the results shown below: 



Sugar heets, heet pulp, and heet molasses fed to pigs. 



The table shows that while the shorts-fed pigs gained 1.7 lbs. each 

 daily, those fed a half allowance of shorts with sugar beets or beet 

 pulp additional gained 1.2 lbs. each daily. In this trial 609 lbs, 

 of wet beet pulp or 396 lbs. of sugar beets replaced 100 lbs. of wheat 

 shorts. Shorts, beet pulp, and beet molasses combined produced 

 nearly as large gains as shorts alone. One hundred lbs. of beet 

 molasses saved 32 lbs. of shorts and 153 lbs. of beet pulp. All the 

 pork was of good quality except that from the molasses-fed pigs, 

 which had a peculiar, unsavory taste. 



Overfeeding with beet molasses causes pigs to scour. In a trial 

 at the Cornell Station,^ after feeding five 87-lb. pigs a ration of 1.6 

 lbs. corn meal, 2.4 lbs. sugar-beet molasses, and 4 lbs. milk for 3 

 days, 2 pigs died suddenly. The molasses was then withdrawn from 

 the ration, but the remaining pigs did not thrive, doubtless due to 



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