Show efficient swine ration Is found in wisconsin profits often go glimmering in the I 1 swine department of many farms through the feeding of inefficient unbalanced rations this is accounted tor for by the fact that pigs eat relatively large amounts ot of grains which are low in protein and mineral content wisconsin experimenters have compounded a ration which from reports Is giving surp surprising g results this ration states doctor morrison Morr lson animal nutrition specialist Is simply a combination of corn chopped alfalfa hay and last but not least linseed meal this combination has haa been tested on huud hundreds reds of hogs and we are said lie he certain of the results the experiments with pig rations show that animals fed on corn and gained slightly less than a pound a day while those fed the tha above ration pounds on the average this means that the pigs receiving the new ration reached the weight of pounds in 29 days before those fed on corn and alone the feed saving la is of even more importance it requires pounds of corn and pounds of for each pounds gained while with the other feed only pounds of of corn pounds alfalfa hay find and pounds of chopped meat meal were pounds of linseed necessary to make th the e same gain |