Show pigs made appreciable gains on cooked beans the michigan agricultural expert experiment station has found that the cooking of cull beans improves their feeding value for swine the ohio station found that feeding cooked soy beans saved 1157 pounds feed per pounds gain in a ration including raw soy beans pigs alga fed 30 weeks averaged pounds weight as compared with an average of pounds for similar pigs fed a ration including cooked soy beans but limited to the same amount of total feed as was fed to pigs having raw soy beans where pigs were allowed pound cooked soy beans dally daily plus other feeds to the limit of appetite they were ready for market 84 days earlier than similar pigs fed raw soy beans in these trials corn 9 ground round air alfalfa alfa and minerals were fed in addition to soy beans too many soy beans produce soft pork the illinois station tells us that a ration tor for fattening hogs should not contain over 12 per cent of soy beans hoards boards dairyman |