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in the last feeding period prior to the marketing of fat 

 hogs. Another factor that will conduce to greater con- 

 sumption is that greater quantities of this feed can 1jc 

 fed when the hogs are on the pasture, and with a rapidly 

 increasing tendency to the use of grazing crops the in- 

 creased consumption of this feed will continue. In the 

 feeding of cottonseed meal some precautions seem neces- 

 sary. In no case should over one-fifth of the ration be 

 made up of this feed, and in the case of j^oung animals 

 the amount should be still less. Cottonseed meal is one 

 of the narrowest feeds we have, having a nutritive ratio 

 of appro.ximately 1 : 1.2, which suggests its use in con- 

 nection with rations containing corn, chufas, molasses, 

 sweet potatoes, saccharine and non-saccharine sorghums 

 and other carbonaceous feeds. It is a \'ery rich feed, 100 

 pounds of the meal containing about 35, 25 and 8 pounds 

 respectively of digestible protein, carbohydrates and fat. 

 It supplies a protein cheaply and is available at all times 

 and at all places, and its judicious use is to be encouraged 

 and recommended. 



Other less important feeds. — There are many feeds that 

 do remarkably well in a small locality, but the adapta- 

 bility of the crop is not general. In this respect Florida 

 is almost in a class by itself, for in addition to the feeds 

 discussed, cassava, beggar weed, Japan cane, St. Augus- 

 tine grass, Mexican clover. Para grass and Guinea grass 

 all have some importance in swine grazing. In addition 

 to these feeds mentioned, there are localities in the South 

 where such legumes as white and alsike clover play a 

 part in the feeding of swine, and where such grasses as 

 Italian rye grass, teosinte, Sudan grass, large water 

 grass, foxtail millets, red top, crab grass, carpet grass, 



