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 i's 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 ISTew 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 : 



