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This vice is very uncommon among fowls that have exercise 
. and a variety of food, and it is most economical to prevent its 
appearance by 
under a ration which does not ordinarily seem to encourage its 
ia development, the vice should be stamped out by the death or 
careful feeding, but as the spread is rapid even 
removal of the first offender. 
Swine. 
Among the many kinds of forage and coarse foods recommended 
as food for hogs, the only kinds tried at this station that gave 
profitable results, when fed in large quantities, were sorghum 
-and beets. Some short feeding trials made in preceding years 
gave such promising results that other feeding experiments with _ 
these foods were made: during the past year. ‘Twenty pigs were 
used in these experiments — two lots of ten each. There were 
seven sows and three barrows in each lot, and the lots were also 
_ alike so far as breeds are concerned, there being in each lot pigs 
i 2 of Poland China, Berkshire, Duroc Jersey and Chester white breeds 
| and of Berkshire-Cheshire cross. 
During the first period lot A was fed a limited amou.i ef 
linseed meal and a large proportion of sorghum, and lot B corn 
meal with the linseed meal, and a small proportion of sorghum. 
During the second period lot B had the large amount of surghum 
and lot A the small amount. In the third and fourth periods 
a when beets were fed instead of sorghum, the lots were contrasted 
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a -in the same way. A moderate amount of skim-milk was fed 
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throughout the experiment. . 
a In feeding sorghum the entire mature plant, except the roots, 
- was fed as cut in the field. The seed was eaten and the stalks 
Be and leaves thoroughly chewed over, but oniy a part beside the 
_ juice eaten. The pigs were given about all they could thus 
s ; utilize. In several trials it was found that about forty-nine per 
4 cent, (48.9 per cent.) of the sorghum weighed out was eaten and 
- this factor is used in order to fill out the amount of food consumed 
a : in the tabulated results given, but this approximate quantity is 
; | ‘not important as the principal information soughi in these trials 
