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the difficulties in feeding dry meal is the prevention of 

 waste, particularly in outside feeding, where a large num- 

 ber of hogs are fed together. In such cases, considerable 

 meal is thrown out of the troughs and trampled into the 

 earth. Where only a few hogs are fed together, especially 

 where they are fed in a pen with a cement floor, there is verv 

 little waste. When the meal is fed wet during cold weather, 

 there is danger of forcing a hog to take more water than it 

 requires. This is most important in the case of breeding 

 sows, especially where they are fed outdoors. For outdoor 

 feeding in winter, dry meal is preferable. There may be a 

 waste of meal but this waste will be more than paid back 

 in the beneficial influence this method of feeding has upon 

 the sows. The whole matter after all is largely one of 

 judgment, and calls for careful study of the conditions 

 under which the feeding is done. For ordinary winter 

 feeding, very satisfactory results can be obtained from 

 mixing the dry meal with pulped roots and allowing the 

 mixture to stand from one feeding time to another. Both 

 roots and meal seem to be made more palatable in this way. 

 In warm weather there is much less danger of supplying 

 more water than is required, and the chances are the hogs 

 will require considerable water in addition to that supplied 

 with their food. 



Ground and Unground Grain. 

 American experiment stations have made a large number 

 of experiments with whole corn versus ground corn. Re- 

 sults have been anything but uniform. As a rule, the 

 ground corn has had a slight advantage over the unground, 

 but in many cases not sufficient to pay for the grinding. 

 The smaller grains, such as peas, barley, etc., appear to 

 show a greater advantage from grinding, and there is little 

 doubt that the grinding of ordinary grain is advisable, 

 especially when prices for grain are high. If it is ever 

 deemed advisable to feed whole grain, it will be found an 

 advantage to soak it thoroughly before feeding. 



