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The best gains for feed consumed were made with young pigs 

 where the grain consisting of equal parts by weight of maize 

 and middlings, was supplemented by a small allowance of 

 skim milk. The pig feeder is warranted not only in using a 

 variety of grains, but will find it to his advantage to add skim 

 milk whenever it can be obtained. 



On the average of the ten years it appears that the pigs 

 fed with whole maize consumed 501 lb. of grain per 100 lb. of 

 gain, while the pigs fed with maize meal only ate 471 lb. of 

 grain for the same result. 



Where there is plenty of time for maturing the pigs, and it 

 is not necessary to secure the maximum daily gain, it is doubtful 

 if it pays to grind maize for pigs, but the test shows that where 

 quick maturity is an important item better results are secured 

 from the maize-meal. Pigs fed with maize-meal eat more grain 

 and make somewhat larger daily gains. It can be used to good 

 advantage in finishing pigs which were first fed on maize. 

 Changing over to maize-meal near the close of the feeding period 

 also furnishes a useful change in the character of the ration. 



A report which has been received through the Foreign Office 

 from His Majesty's Consul-General at Hamburg (Sir W. Ward, 

 C.V.O.) gives some information as to the 

 Import of Feeding importation into Germany of food for 

 Stuffs into Germany, live stock. There has been recently, 

 owing to the high prices of meat, a sub- 

 stantial increase in the number of cattle and pigs, and the 

 consequence of this increase has been that, in spite of the 

 abundant crops of all kinds of fodder in Germany in 1906, 

 there was last year a considerable rise in the demand in Germany 

 for the leading descriptions of feeding stuffs for live stock, 

 comprising oilcake and oilcake-meal, bran, rice-meal, malt- 

 sprouts and potato-residue, which are imported from foreign 

 countries. 



The great importance of the German import trade in these 

 articles may be inferred from the fact that during the year 1906 

 the total value of such imports amounted to nearly ten millions 

 sterling : the imports of oilcake and oilcake-meal (601,293 

 metric tons) being valued at £3,925,000, the imports of bran 

 (1,089,724 metric tons) at £5,074,500, and the imports of 



