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Pork Production 



In each of the seven experiments, the pigs fed the 

 hominy meal gained faster, and with a smaller expendi- 

 ture of feed for a unit of gain, than did those fed the corn- 

 meal. On the average, the gains from the former ration 

 were nearly 20 per cent faster, and 100 pounds of the 

 hominy ration equaled 119 pounds of the corn ration. 



More recent feeding experiments, however, show a 

 higher feeding value for corn than for hominy. Five 

 trials at the Iowa Experiment Station and two at the 

 Indiana Station since 1916 gave uniformly better results 

 from corn than from hominy, the averaged conclusions 

 of which are shown in Table CXLII. In four of the Iowa 

 experiments the pigs had access to blue-grass pasture, 

 and in one they were on rape. In the Indiana trials 

 the pigs were fed in dry lots. Shelled corn was fed in 

 five of the trials and ground corn in two. In all cases 

 the feeds were properly supplemented in self-feeders. 



Table CXLII. — Hominy Meal vebstts Corn pok Ghowinq 

 AND Fattening Pigs' 



In every one of the experiments here summarized, a 

 smaller total amount of feed was required to produce 



' Eward and Dunn, Iowa Exp. Sta. Circ. letter ; Skinner and 

 Starr, Ind. Exp. Sta., Circ. letter. 



