Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1888 [PAGE 236]

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FEEDING

PIGS.

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the question of economy. I t must be remembered, however, that digestibility is a very important quality in foods. I t is presumable that the solids of milk are more digestible than the solids of corn meal. Another important element is the amount eaten in a given time. When milk was fed with corn meal more solids were consumed daily than when corn meal was fed alone. More food was available, therefore, to produce increase. Hence palatability becomes important by increasing 'the amount an animal will consume in a given time.

TABLE

1.— Weight at beginning of each week; gain per week, and for periods of three weeks, and six weeks, for each pig as numbered.

N o . 51. N o . 54. N o . 56.

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N o v e m b e r 22 N o v e m b e r 29 December 6 D e c e m b e r 13 Three weeks D e c e m b e r 20 D e c e m b e r 27 •January 4 Three weeks Six weeks ' 204 220 231.5 246 252.5 264 265 16 11.5 14.5 42 6.5 11.5 1 19 61 160 168 180.5 192.5 200 208 209 8 12.5 12 32.5 7.5 8 1 16.5 49 180 192.5 197 207 215 222 229 12.5 4.5 10 27 8 7 7 22 49 192 205 211.5 225.2 234.5 243.5 249 13 6.5 14 33.5 9 9 5.5 23 57

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179 199.5 207 215.5 216.5 222.5 222.5

20.5 7.5 8.5 36.5 1 6 7 43.5

202 229.5 239 254 256 265.5 270

27.5 9.5 15 52 2 9.5 4.5 16 68

TABLE

2.— Weight at beginning of each week; gain per week. , and for periods of three and six weeks; gain per hundred Q pounds of live weight* per week, and average gains per week for each lot.

Lot A - N o s . 51—54 L o t B-- N o s . Gain per 100 lb of live weight 55—56 L o t C - - N o s . Gain per 100 lb of live 52—53 Gain per 100 lb of live

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N o v e m b e r 22 N o v e m b e r 29 December 6 D e c e m b e r 13 Three weeks D e c e m b e r 20 D e c e m b e r 27 January 4 Three week s Six weeks

364 388 412 438.5

24 24 26.5 74.5 452.5 14 19.5 472 2 474 35.5 110

6.38 6.00 6.23 6.20 3.14 4.22 .42 2.5U 4.40

372 397 5 408.5 432.5

25.5 11 24 60.5 449.5 '17 465.5 16 12.5 478 45.5 106

6.63 2.73 5.70 5.02 3.85 3.50 2.65 3.33 4.18

381 429 446 469.5

48 11.85 17 3.95 23.5 5.13 88.5 6.98 .64 472.5 3 15.5 3.23 488 .92 492.5 4.5 23 1.60 111.5 4.30

•: Obtained by dividing the gain par week by average weightat the beginning and end of the week.