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SOME EXPERIMENTS IN PIG-FEEDING. 
In continuation of the reports of various experiments on 
pig-feeding for bacon which have recently appeared in this 
Journal,* it may be interesting to notice here the results of 
an experiment undertaken by the Agricultural Depart- 
ment of the Yorkshire College, and also some practical 
observations made by Mr. John M. Harris, in an article 
published in the Journal of the British Dairy Farmers’ 
Association, on the results of a series of experiments in pig- 
feeding carried out by a local committee at Calne, Wilts. 
The object of the experiment carried out at Garforth under 
the direction of Professor Campbell, of the Agricultural 
Department of the Yorkshire College, Leeds, was to 
determine the value as flesh formers of sharps and maize 
respectively mixed with barley meal, and also the effect of 
feeding these rations in a sloppy ard in a dry condition. To 
one lot of pigs gluten was also given with the ordinary food 
for the purpose of determining the effect of a higher albuminoid 
ration. Before entering upon the main experiment the pigs 
were tested over a certain period in order to secure as far as 
possible uniform lots. On August roth last, 24 pigs, each about 
seven weeks old, were separated into lots of six each and fed 
uniformly for 124 days on a mixture consisting of one part 
barley meal, one part bran, and two parts sharps, served 
with about four times its weight of water in which it had 
been previously steeped. At the conclusion of this prelimi- 
nary test it was found that, taking the whole period of 124 
days into consideration, the average live weight increase 
per head per day was practically the same for each lot. 
From this result it appears that, on the whole, the 
individuality of the animals may be overcome by taking a 

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