Show MAKING TEST WITH PEANUTS Government Farm Farm at at Beltsville Experimenting Experimenting Ex Ex- With Goobers as ae Feed for Hogs Is a soft sott oily fat on a hog produced by feeding peanuts a ri characteristic that can be Inherited and that will persist regardless of the nature of the ration fed the offspring That Is ono one of ot the interesting questions to bo be Investigated Investigated In In- b by the United States Department Department Department De De- of Agriculture at the experiment experiment expert expert- ment farm at Beltsville Md kid Both Doth th the bacon and lard types will be used the former to be represented at the start by uy 4 Tamworth gilts and the latter Jatter by uy 4 Poland China gilts From weaning time until their first litters Utters are weaned these eight gilts will be grown and fed on a peanut ration t From rom the time of weaning their pigs will be he fed on some hardening hardening hardening harden harden- ing ration such as corn and and will be ue compared with a check lot of ot pigs whose dams dums were fed on hardening feeds Instead of peanuts during their development de and gestation gestation gestation gesta gesta- tion periods When the pigs have been grown out and finished some somo of each lot will be ue slaughtered to determine whether there Is an any difference In the carcasses that Is If It tho the peanut ration fed to tv the mothers has made It more difficult to put u a hard har flesh on un the offspring offspring off orr- spring with corn |