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to have about equal feeding values, with a superior 

 value when combined. 



The Wisconsin station found a bushel of corn to 

 be worth four and one-half bushels of potatoes, the 

 potatoes being cooked and fed with corn-meal. 



Experiments at various stations, as summarized by 

 Prof. Henry, of Wisconsin, showed that 615 pounds of 

 roots would save TOO pounds of grain in fattening pigs. 



The Wisconsin station fed skim-milk and corn- 

 meal to separate lots of pigs, giving to each lot all they 

 would eat ; also, to other pigs, skim-milk and corn- 

 meal mixed. As between skim-milk fed alone and 

 corn-meal fed alone, those fed on skim-milk made 

 somewhat the larger gain. * ' The greatest gain for the 

 food eaten occurred when two pounds of meal was fed 

 with three and one-third pounds of skim-milk." This 

 would furnish a nutritive ratio of i : 6.9, and would 

 answer well with pigs above 100 pounds in weight, to 

 quickly put them in order for market. 



Experience apparently demonstrates the wisdom 

 of feeding hard-wood ashes, ground bone, charcoal, 

 etc., where the hog diet is of necessity largely corn. 

 Pigs thus fed have stronger bones than where they get 

 nothing except the corn. In my own practice I have 

 not made much use of these things, as my pigs always 

 have a varied diet. 



The testimony of the experts in regard to hog 

 rations is apparently contradictory at times, for one 

 day I read of marked success with a wide ratio and 

 next day of almost equal success with a very narrow 

 ratio. Of course this apparent contradiction is because 

 all the facts are not told. There is no chance about it. 



