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quantity of meat-meal had been fed earlier in the test. 

 The relative merits of the crops is well shown by the 

 rates of gain and the concentrates required to produce 

 100 pounds of gain. The superiority of the legumes, 

 clover and alfalfa, over the blue-grass and timothy is very 

 marked. Clover gave slightly better results in this 

 experiment than did alfalfa, although the authors of the 

 bulletin, as the result of other studies, rank it below 

 alfalfa in value. The uniformity of the results from the 

 two lots on clover testifies to the care exercised in mak- 

 ing the different lots comparable. 



In Table XLIX are sho\\Ti the results secured from 

 feeding spring pigs on blue-grass pasture at the Missouri 

 Station.^ In these tests enough of a grain ration consist- 

 ing of 6 parts com and 1 part linseed-oil meal was fed to 

 secure a gain of approximately \ pound daily. 



Table XLIX. — Results from Pasttthing Blue-grass 



These pigs weighed approximately 200 pounds on the 

 average at the close of the grazing seasons. A cost of 



» BuU. 110. 



