378 THE FEEDING OF ANIMALS 



three pounds with the largest eaters, some individuals 

 not taking over two. The conduct of these feeding trials 

 typifies good practice, both as to materials and manage- 

 ment, and may serve as a guide in handling other simi- 

 lar feeding-stuffs. 



It is undoubtedly possible to feed sheep with equal 

 success without the use of purchased grains, especially 

 on farms where clover or alfalfa, roots, com, oats, or 

 oats and peas, are produced. We are not justified by 

 experimental results in concluding that bran and oil 

 meal or any other by-product feeds are essential to the 

 highest success in fattening sheep, although these feeding- 

 stuffs are very useful for this purpose. A mixed grain 

 ration is always better than any single grain fed alone. 



Instances are on record of a successful combination 

 of green forage crops with grain in fattening sheep. The 

 legume fodders and rape may be fed profitably in the 

 green state with the usual grain mixtures, care being 

 taken to avoid indigestion from excessive eating of the 

 green material. Grain in connection with ordinary pas- 

 turage is a successful method of fattening sheep or lambs 

 for the fall market. 



POBK PEODXJCTION 



The feeding of swine is a matter of almost univer- 

 sal interest to farmers. Even in the older portions of 

 the East a few animals of this class are kept on nearly 

 every farm. Swine are well adapted to the disposal of 

 certain wastes, particularly those from the table and the 

 dairy. They are especially useful as a means of profitably 

 converting dairy by-products into a marketable form, and, 

 moreover, during the past twenty-five years pork produc- 



