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Suggestions for Pig-Feeders. 



[JAN., 



showed that for pork production 100 lb. of lucerne hay were 

 about equal to 63 lb. of grain, or that one ton of lucerne hay 

 would produce 235 lb. of pork, a figure much lower, however, 

 than that attained in a previous trial. 



Stewart found* that the addition of two quarts of short-cut 

 clover to each day's ration of maize meal, the whole being 

 wetted with hot water and allowed to stand ten or twelve 

 hours before being given to the pigs, led to a considerable 

 increase in the gains made compared with maize meal alone 

 treated in the same way. Pigs of 75 lb. each in weight gained 

 no lb. in 120 days when fed on maize meal only, but 143 lb. 

 in the same time when the clover chaff was added to the 

 ration. Henry saysf "While the pig gets some nourishment 

 from the hay, much of the advantage is doubtless due to the 

 normal distension of the digestive tract effected by this 

 material," as the pig is omnivorous by nature and suffers 

 seriously if confined to cereals alone. 



At the Oregon Experiment Station! it was found that one 

 acre of good clover for growing hogs represented a value of 

 about £9 5s. 



Experiments were conducted in 1905 at the Central Experi- 

 mental Farm, Ottawa, || in which five lots of pigs were feci 

 on a meal mixture of 500 lb. shorts, 30 lb. oil meal and 10 lb. 

 gluten. In addition, one lot were pastured on lucerne, one 



Fed for thirty-five days 

 on mixed meal and 



Average 

 weight at 

 start. 



Average 

 weight 

 at end. 



Average 

 gain in 

 thirty-five 

 days. 



Average 

 daily 

 gain. 



Average food 

 consumed 

 (meal only). 



Food per 

 lb. gain 

 (meal only). 





lb: 



lb. 



lb. 



lb. 



lb. 



lb. ' 



Lucerne pasture ... 



106 



155 



49 



I '4 



200 



4-08 



Red clover pasture 



9i 



143 



52 



IS 



202 



3-89 



Roots in the field .. 



102 



149 



47 



I 31 



200 



4-26 



Roots in pens 



52 



114 



62 



177 



200 



3'23 



No extra food 



50 



100 



5i 



i-45 



240 



471 



lot on clover and one on roots, one lot were given roots in the 

 pens, and one lot got no supplementary food. The roots were 

 mangolds, sugar mangolds, sugar beets, carrots* and turnips. 

 The chief results are given in the table above. 



* Henry, op. cit,, p. 577. f Henry, op. cit., p. 612. 



X Experiment Station Record, 1904-5, p. 85. 

 || Experimental Farms Reports, 1905, p. 71. 



