CHAPTER EIGHTEEN. 



"ARE YOU FEEDING RIGHT?" 



The following is an editorial taken from a recent issue of 

 The Swine World. 



We have never practiced this system fully, but believe 

 that Prof. Evvard has worked out a feeding system which 

 greatly reduces the cost of feeding and lessens labor, and 

 at the same time secures no little increase of growth from 

 a g'iven amount of feed. 



It is my opinion that we will practice this system on 

 Love joy Farm much more in the future than we have in 

 the past: 



"At the recent Iowa Swine Breeders' meeting, held at 

 Iowa Agricultural College, Ames, Iowa, Prof. John M. Ev- 

 vard stated that rape was without a peer as the best of all 

 forage crops for swine, feeding value alone considered. He 

 stated that rape was second only to alfalfa for the number 

 of pigs that it would support per acre, and on account of 

 the low price of rape seed and the small amount of labor 

 required to raise the crop, that it deserved the attention of 

 all swine raisers. 



"Prof. Eward emphasized the well-known fact that corn 

 was deficient as a single swine food, and laid great stress 

 on the necessity of forage crops. It was while speaking 

 on this subject that he made the above statement relative 

 to the advantage of grow'ing rape. 



"However, forage crops by themselves, says Prof. Ev- 

 vard, are not sufficient to produce best results, even when 

 fed with corn, and he advises the use of some concentrated 

 supplementary feed such as old process oil meal or tankage. 

 In this connection Prof. Eward made a very interesting 

 statement and one that we fully agree with, and that is, 

 that oil meal and tankage fed together in equal parts is a 

 better feed for swine than when fed singly. 



