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will be dropped from the standard in the course of time. This 
remark is based upon certain experimental work, but the work 
is not sufficiently advanced to warrant a definite statement. 
In the second place, the standard is very complex, and 
it would be difficult for the busy farmer to calculate rations and 
follow the intricacies of the standard. On the other hand, 
Professor Dietrich deserves great credit for the thoroughness 
of his investigations, and the standard is especially valuable 
on account of the light it throws upon the protein requirement 
of young pigs. There is no doubt that many 2 promising 
litter has been stunted through ignorance of this important 
point. No doubt the standard will eventually be modified and 
simplified until it is brought within the reach of the average 
intelligent feeder. 
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HOGS FOLLOWING STEERS. 
Many farmers who fatten steers regard the hog as a neces- 
sary adjunct to the business if a profit is to be obtained. 
The hogs work over the droppings of the steers and fatten 
upon the undigested grain in the manure of the cattle. 
Illinois——The number of hogs per steer, which can be 
used to advantage, will vary with the character of the ration 
fed the steers. H. W. Mumford, in Bulletin 103 of the Llinois 
Experiment Station, states: “ Where enough pigs are provided 
to consume undigested feed in the droppings of steers, it re- 
quires fully twice as many where corn is fed whole as it does 
where meal is fed to the steers.” The same writer secured 
gains on hogs following steers ranging from 111.5 pounds of 
pork to 6.3 pounds of pork per steer, in a feeding period of 
six months. The largest gain was made by hogs following 
steers fed shelled corn, and the smallest by hogs following 
steers fed corn meal and silage. 
