Show rickets and paralysis caused by poor feeding fall pigs fed ed a basal ration of f ground white corn flour wheat mid clingo old process and salt at the ahlo experiment station suffered buffered sevel ely from pneumonia rickets and paralysis of 0 the hind quarters paralysis was found to follow sudden sadden exertion or slipping A postmortem examination showed crushed vertebra in the back almost severing the spinal cord or in less severe cases irregularities in the vertebra one lot received blood meal others received ground limestone ground peanut hulls to furnish fiber cod liver oil and yeast and various combinations blood meal as a carrier of an efficient protein soon proved a failure in preventing rickets as dla peanut hulls aulls and vitamin B in yeast blood meal seemed to hasten the trouble cod liver oil alone caused a powerful growth impulse and a weak though large bone results the addition of a calcium salt as in ground limestone to the cod liver oil produced satisfactory results the less severe cases of paralysis were cured by the use of a corrective diet containing particularly cod liver oil and suitable minerals properly cured alfalfa hay bay has recently been found very valuable for fall pigs |