Show hog ration at the illinois experiment station some years ago two lots of 70 pound pigs were led fed in dry lot till they reached a weight of pounds per head lot I 1 was fed shelled corn alfalfa meal and while lot 2 was fed corn soybean oil meal alfalfa meal and a mineral mixture composed of equal quantities by weight of ground limestone steamed bone meal and salt these two lots both consumed ex acely the same abound of feed per hundred pounds of gain lot 1 ate pounds corn 24 pounds of tank age and 8 pounds alfalfa men benl per hundredweight of pain gain while lot 2 ate pounds corn BO 56 pounds soybean oil meal 13 pounds alfalfa meal and one pound of mineral soybean oil meal contains about 40 per cent of protein while contains 60 per cent thus while has heretofore been considered superior as a protein supplement for hogs bogs this test shows soybean oil meal cost c considered si more valuable when it Is fed with a mineral mixture exchange |