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Show Feed for Brood Sows A good ration for brood sows Is essential es-sential If one is to have pigs that will 11 e. One of our experiment stations has fed sows a ration of .3 pounds tankage, .4S pounds alfalfa hay and 4.7 pounds of corn per day through their period of pregnancy, with the result of 7.9 pigs per sow which weighed an average av-erage of 2.34 pounds of which 89 per cent were rated as vigorous. No doubt you are familiar with the results of feeding corn alone. This ra-tior ra-tior is often at fault when sows eat their pigs or produce pigs of low vitality. vi-tality. The tankage mentioned in the ration can be reduced one-half and the other part supplied by linseed oil meal. Commercial Com-mercial supplements for hogs are well balanced and give good results. Exchange. |