156 RESULTS OF EXPERIMENTS IN SWINE FEEDING 



Shorts were fed in two proportions, — namely, one of shorts 

 to two of com meal, and one of shorts to one of corn meal. 



The experiment lasted 112 days. 



Leading Points. — There are many interesting details of 

 this experiment which cannot be given here, and only the 

 leading points will be referred to. 



1. Meat meal and tankage proved practically equal as 

 supplements to corn in point of producing gains, as will be 

 seen from the following statement : 



Ration. Gain per hog. 



Corn and meat meal on pasture 164.9 lbs. 



Corn and tankage on pasture 162.9 lbs. 



Corn and meat meal in dry lot 128.8 lbs. 



Corn and tankage in dry lot 128.8 lbs. 



2. The number of bushels of com replaced by one ton of 

 supplementary feed was as follows : 



Ration 



Corn 2, aborts 1 One ton shorts replaced 46.6 bu. corn 



Corn 1, sborts 1 One ton shorts replaced 45.3 bu. corn 



Corn 5, meat meal 1. . .One ton meat meal replaced .57.9 bu. corn 

 Corn 5, tankage 1 One ton tankage replaced 64.4 bu. corn 



From this stand-point, tankage proved most effective. 



3. When the hogs were upon pasture, shorts compared 

 favorably with meat meal. The average total concentrates re- 

 quired for 100 poimds gain in the case of hogs fed com and 

 shorts on pasture was 403.9 pounds; in the case of the hogs 

 fed meat meal and com it was 409.6 pounds; for the hogs 

 fed tankage and com, it was 398.4 pounds. 



4. In the dry lots the highly nitrogenous feeds, meat meal 

 and tankage, showed to best advantage as compared with shorts, 

 the average total feed requirements for 100 pounds gain being 



