Pleasant Grove Review | 1938-02-18 | Page 3 | Oats as Hog Feed

Oats as Hog Feed Farmers may profitably use a part of the 1937 near-record crop of oats to take advantage of high hog prices, according to authorities of the animal husbandry department of the college of agriculture at the University of Illinois. Oats may be fed to fattening swine to the extent of nearly half the ration without appreciably ap-preciably decreasing the rate of gain of pigs. Based on 17 different feeding trials involving more than 1,290 pigs, oats when fed with corn and supplement did not slow down the rate of gain unless they made up almost half of the ration.