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Show RESULTS WITH HOGS ON GARBAGE Eight pigs, averaging fifty-two pounds each, were selected for a garbage feeding test at the Iowa Experiment Ex-periment Station by Prof. John M. Evvard, of whom the Breeder's Gazette Ga-zette says that "whenever a problem of swine feeding arises, he goes out and puts the question to the pig." The test was planned in anticipation of the garbage disposal problem at our army cantonments. These ani-'mals ani-'mals were offered an average of 23.6 pounds of garbage daily, and consumed con-sumed 19.6 pounds, which they converted con-verted into 0.96 of a pound of live pork. They did this for seventy days, 'averaging 120 pounds on August 28. Then they were divided into two groups for 'the next 30 days, one group receiving garbage as before, while the others were self-fed all the wheat middlings they wanted in addition' ad-dition' to the garbage, but made no better gains than the pigs on straight garbage, leading to the conclusion that grain should be fed preferably corn only when there is not enough garbage to go around. Garbage is not difficult to feed If pens and troughs are kept scrupulously clean. With hogs at $20 per hundredweight the garbage from a kitchen serving 100 persons would be worth $1.15 for the first 70 days of pig feeding, 'and 83 cents for the next 30 days. Twenty-cent hogs will pay nearly a cent a pound for garbage, and the kitchen refuse from a single big cantonment can-tonment will make 750,000 pounds of pork in a season. These results have been given to farmers and others oth-ers who have taken garbage contracts. con-tracts. a. |