Show L iti I IE IET r T It 16 y i w SOY BEANS POOR FOR FATTENING FATTE ING Is one or of the bean benn While hll the to soy most valuable summer legume crops for tor North It Is a poor feed for fattening hogs Experiments conducted by our workers have shown conclusively that for soy bean benn seeds are arc unsatisfactory pork production because they are lacking In produce soft carcass and give ge g e u low amount oll of l pork per acre h when compared C I nr with I I per acre for fat fat- I other standard feeds used II 1 swine says Earl II 11 ler In charge of swine investigations In at the North r Carolina State collegE On the other hand soy bean meal mealhas mealhas has been found very palatable e and when used as a supplement to corn rapid and uniform gains are secured Professor Hostetler conducted one test In three different using pigs comparing comparin soy bean benn meal with fish meal tie Be found that tile the pigs made about the same dally daily gain gainin In weight but that the cost of the gain was greater where time the animals were fed the soy bean benn meal and that both lots paid about the same price for each bushel of corn consumed The pigs used were high grade Po Po- and were sold soldon hand China animals on time the market and there because of oC soft or was was no dockage oily carcasses In another test where he used pigs In t four ur trials he compared fish meal with one half soy the other half half- fish lish Meal In these trials time the t feed required to produce produce pro pro- duce pounds of gain was about about the same however Howe th the pigs pl s consumed consumed con con- about twice ns as much m h of of time the soy bean meal and fish Osh meal mixed and therefore bro brought down the value alue about bout 30 of the soy bean meal to n a ton instead of 50 which was the price actually paid |