PIG FEEDING EXPERIMENTS.

King Country Chronicle, Volume VIII, Issue 717, 31 October 1914, Page 7

PIG FEEDING EXPERIMENTS.

, At the present ti.uie a serins of experiments are being carried out to teßt not only the system .of feeding the meal and water in Heparate trough?, but also the cooking and scalding of the rheal. The experiments are being carried but at Holmea Farm in connection with Kilmarnock Dairy School, Ayrshire. Forty-eight pigs were divided into three lots on June 2nd. The meal consists of three-sixths maize meal, two-sixths thirds and one-sixth barley meal and whey. One lot of 16 pigs are being fed with the meal in a dry state; these pigs have made an average gain per week of 5.51b5, at a cost of 2d per lb. The second lot are fed on a mixture of meal and whey, and made a weeKly avreaga of 4.71b5, at a cost oC 2£d per lb; whilst the third lot, which have the meal scalded with boiling water, have made an average increase of 4.21bs per head per week, at a cost of 2£d per lb. It would appear that so far as these complain expxeriments have gone the dry meal £ehows an advantage of some 11 per cent, over the wet meal and of 25 per cent, over the lot fed on the scalded meal, whilst the latter gives a worse return by about 10 per cent, thun the meal tjoaked in whey.