LESSON TWENTY-SEVEN 
FEEDING HOGS 
1. Meat producers compared—When compared with 
other meat producers the hog consumes less food for 
what he gives than any 
other meat-making animal. 
He works faster. It is due 
in part to his digestive ap- 
paratus, to the kind of food 
he relishes, and to the fact 
that he uses less food than 
the other animals for work 
and body heat. On the 
basis of 1,000 pounds live 
weight the hog uses about 
275 pounds of dry food to 
160 for the sheep and 125 
for steers a week. Of this 
he will digest 230 pounds, 
while the sheep will digest 
but 120 pounds and the 
steer but 88 pounds. 
2. Most meat from hogs. 
—To produce 100 pounds 
of increase the steer will 
consume 1,100 pounds of 
dry food, the sheep 910 and 
the hog 420. The increase 
in live weight for food con- 
sumed, on the basis of one 
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