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Show EXPERIMENT WITH PIG FEED Results of Tests Made at Kansas Agricultural College Embodying Work of Three Years. Weanling pigs weighing about forty-five forty-five pounds at the Kansas Agricultural college were fed: One lot on corn alone and another on corn and alfaJfa pasture, in summer, and alfalfa hay in R-inter. President Waters showed the results of the experiments, embodying the work of three years, with charts and photographs and lantern slides. In every case the pigs were put into the experiment at weaning time weighing about forty-five pounds, being be-ing March pigs. The experiment began about July 1. In each experiment one group fed on corn alone in a dry lot did not thrive. At least one pig died each year of what the veterinary experts declared to be starvation, notwithstanding the fact that they were offered all the corn they would eat. When pigs on other ' rations were weighing 250 pounds each and were fat and ready for market, the pigs on corn alone, were thin . and scrawny, weighing forty or sixty pounds. |