Show right mineral mixture in swine feeding lot tile veteran everall ete rall experimental feeder nt at tile the liwa experiment station john XI evvard lias has the following to say i about a simple mineral mixture for pigs it Is surprising liow how well a simple mineral nil mixture will usually respond in ili the swine feeding lot it Is surprising that even common salt amny give ghe results that hint tire lire greatly superior sup eilor to those obtained where no salt Is fell fed A simple mixture of silt salt and wool wood ashes often yields wonderfully good g 0 oi results of course we ve use ilse salt and wood flood ashes we have a mix ml ture that carries a number of essen val nutritional elements elemen tSi chief among which me are calcium sodium phosphorus and magnesium A very good simple backbone mixture which carries the ou outstanding and main deficiency elem elements L is such as are needed to balance up our ordinary feeds may ile be made up per hun d ded cd pounds as follows hard wood ashes CO 60 pounds spent bone black or bone ione charcoal 25 pounds common r salt 11 it 1 15 pounds potassium iodide pounds two one hundredths or one fiftieth of one pound |