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the corn was fed alone. There was also a saving in the 

 feed required for each 100 pounds of gain. The ration 

 of 9 parts of corn and 1 of tankage proved the best. 

 With normal prices, this ration would give more profitable 

 results than corn alone. 



Evvard of the Iowa Experiment Station ' fed different 

 proportions of meat-meal or tankage with corn to spring 

 pigs on alfalfa and rape with the following interesting 

 results, as shown in Table LXIX. 



Table LXIX. — Best Proportion op Tankage to Feed 

 WITH Corn to Piqb on Rape and Alfalfa 



Regarding the advisability of feeding tankage or meat- 

 meal to pigs on rape, Eward says : " Rape requires very 

 little if any supplement. Oiu* experience indicates, and 

 the above figures are in line with this, that about 5 per 



• Proc. Am. See. Animal Nutrition : 1913. 



