208 RESULTS OF EXPERIMENTS IN SWINE FEEDING 
Pumpkins and Squashes.—Pumpkins belong to the same 
class of feeds as roots, giving bulk and succulence to the ration 
and thus promoting thrift. J. H. Grisdale, Central Experi- 
mental Farm, has a high opinion of pumpkins for swine. He 
says: “We cook them and mix meal with them, and I don’t 
think there is anything that will surpass them as a cheap 
fattening ration.” He also states that the pigs like the seeds 
best, and that no injury comes from feeding the seeds. Ex- 
cellent results were obtained at the New Hampshire Experiment 
Station from feeding raw pumpkins with meal and skim-milk. 
The Oregon Experiment Station found that a 200-pound 
hog consuming 26 pounds of cooked pumpkin and a small 
amount of shorts gained 1.2 pounds per day. Other in- 
vestigators have found that 273 pounds of grain and 376 
pounds of raw pumpkin produced 100 pounds of pork. Some 
experiments show that cooking pumpkins does not add to their 
value. 
The squash may be counted as equal to the pumpkin in 
feeding value. 
Apples.—Apples do not appear to possess a high feeding 
value, but may often be used to good advantage to give variety 
and succulence to a ration. They are perhaps most suitable 
for mature breeding stock, but a hog should never be expected 
to subsist upon apples as the main part of its ration. 
Skim-Milk.—The results of nineteen trials with eighty- 
eight pigs at the Wisconsin Experiment Station are well sum- 
marized by Henry in “ Feeds and Feeding.” It is a well- 
known fact that when a small proportion of skim-milk is fed 
with meal, the milk shows a higher meal equivalent than when 
a large proportion is fed; that is to say, it requires a smaller 
amount of skim-milk to be equivalent to a given amount of 
meal when a small proportion of milk to meal is used. Henry 
summarizes the Wisconsin results as follows: 
