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Show LOWLY HOG IS ECONOMICAL Puts to Good Use All It Consumes, Eighty Per Cent, of Carcass Being Available. The American hog Is the most economical eco-nomical of animals. Of what a horse eats 52 per cent, goes to waste. Forty-four Forty-four per cent, of the food consumed by cattle is similarly lost, and 32 per cent, of all fiat sheep take Into their stomachs. stom-achs. Only 12 per cent, of what a pig eats is wasted. Fifty-two per cent, of the food eaten by a hog goes to make growth. A sheep utilizes only 25 per cent, of its sustenance for growing, which means, of course, the production produc-tion of meat. These figures are obtained ob-tained from recent experiments made by government experts, who find, as a result of their study, that the pig has what they call an "economic superiority" superi-ority" even over poultry. That is to say, it produces more meat in proportion propor-tion to its weight, and the animal weighs more in proportion to the amount of food it consumes. Eighty-four Eighty-four per cent, of the carcass of a hog is utilized as meat; of the beef animal, 75 per cent, is edible, and of the sheep only 54 per cent. Thus it appears that a greater percentage of the pig is available for food than of any other domesticated creature. |