230 FEEDING AND MANAGEMENT 
the meal ration, and wheat middlings or bran may be used to 
dilute the corn meal without oats. In cold weather, if sows 
have a good deal of out-door exercise, they may be fed more 
corn with safety than when they have to be kept pretty closely 
confined. 
A meal ration which is preferred by the writer to all others 
is equal parts ground oats and middlings, leaving out corn 
Fia. 51.—Three-year-old Chester white sow, winner of numerous prizes. 
altogether. It is possible, however, to use a wide variety of 
feeds, su long as the feeder realizes the importance of furnish- 
ing considerable bulk and of restricting the proportion of 
heating or highly fattening feeds. 
As in the case of the boar, the sow requires something 
besides meal, and the furnishing of some such feeds as roots, 
or alfalfa or red clover hav, is even more important than in 
