Show WELL BRED PIGS MAKE MORE MEAT lvell a hog lg Is susceptible to good breeding and when lie ho Is well bred lie he will make faster anti and more economical gains than will his brother who alio lacks such quality of blood wo we conducted two interesting tests in 1027 which prove tile the pre prevailing opinion that pigs of good breeding placed in ili the proper environment and fed a good ration will produce more satisfactory results than pigs of nondescript breeding says ter in charge of swine investigations at the north carolina state college we used pigs in tho the tests sixty ahio were veto bought in eastern carolina and while they were thrifty and in good condition gave no evidence of any particular breeding tho the other 00 SO were pure bred or high grade poland china animals bred on the blackland station farm near wenona As to results mr air hostetler hosteller states that the 09 pigs of poor breeding had an initial weight of pounds at the beginning of the feeding period and came out weighing an average of 2145 the average dally gain was wag 11 pound end it required pounds of feet feed to produce pound gain but bu tile the good PI ps 93 of clasa breeding weighed an average of 1035 pounds at the beginning of the test and came out weighing 2405 average these pigs made an average dally gain of 24 pounds and required pounds of the samo same feed to produce a pounds of gain each group of animals received shelled corn losli meal and minerals from self feeders and were comparable us lis to rations and environment therefore re it Is obvious states mr hosteller ilos that good breeding had something to do with the increased gains ninde inde by the more profitable group the ability to produce rapid and economical nor gains from feed consumed Is certainly transmitted from parent to oft spring in ili the samo same anner as la Is color form find and size lie he states protein supplements for fattening lambs on a trial recently conducted ni ai the lie west central experiment station morris minn linseed meal and corn gin ten meal at 50 0 per ton a awl cotton cottonseed see I 1 meal at 58 53 per ton each proved it satisfactory high protein supplement to corn find and alfalfa tuy bay forbat for fat fattening tell I 1 aig lambs lamba no appreciable ad advantage wits was shown by any one of these over tin the others nor by a combination of any two of nf them however tilt tion lion of nf nil three did increase the guin gain somewhat lowered the feed basi per pounds of gain resulted it in a hilti er degree of finish an and 0 a lilg higher hersell selling price per lamb the feed cost per lamb wits was lower when only corn and alfalfa liay hay were used these lower feed costs the greater gains secured ed with the protein supplements resulted tn in a higher selling price per lamb ind a greater margin over feed costs cost chilis was secured with the feeding of corn and alfalfa alone A similar trial recently completed at the nebraska experiment station brought almost identical results skim shim milk satisfactory as feed for the calf satisfactory growth of calves la Is reported from pennsylvania experiment station on pounds whole milk and pol pounds linds dry skim milk after the efte initial whole milk period results suggest feeding dry skim milk milt reconstituted buted up to six weeks of age then gradually changing to a dry mixture containing about 40 per cent dry skim milk which should he reduced as the calves grow older and cori consume sunie mor concentrate |