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PewiCUL RIVAL AND MISCELEANBOUS NODES: 
Pig FEEDING EXPERIMENTS. 
The following account of two experiments carried out by 
the Agricultural Department of Nottingham University 
College is taken from the Board’s Report on the Distribution 
of Grants for Agricultural Education during the past year. 
The object of the first experiment was to settle a point on 
which there exists among farmers and others a great difference 
of opinion, viz., whether it is more profitable to feed pigs with 
maize-meal scalded or unscalded. 
Twelve pigs of the middle white breed, all of one litter, were 
selected for the first experiment, and these were divided 
into two lots of six pigs each. The age of the pigs at the 
commencement of the experiment was nineteen weeks, and 
the difference in the total weights of the two sets of pigs was 
only 16lbs. Each lot received exactly the same quantities of 
maize-meal and whey, the only difference being that Lot I. 
received its maize-meal raw, while for Lot II. the maize-meal 
was scalded previously to being fed. 
The pigs were kept in an ordinary stye, with an inner and 
outer court; only the inner court was covered, and it was 
separated from the outer by means of a hinged door. [ach lot 
was fed twice a day, viz., at 7a.m.and 4 p.m. Previous to feed- 
ing the pigs were shut into the inner court; whey was then 
put into the trough, and in the case of Lot I. raw (dry) maize- 
meal was put on to the surface of the whey, while Lot II. 
received the same quantity of scalded maize-meal mixed with 
the whey in the troughs. The inner court doors were then 
opened, and the pigs given access to their food. 
The experiment commenced on September rst, 1899, and 
concluded on December gth, when the pigs were killed. Both 
