Mexico weekly ledger., 1910-07-21
FOOD AND CLIMATE AS
DETERMINING FACTORS
IN SIZE OF ANIMALS
AupRAlN sTocKMEN GIVE IDEAS
REGARDING CATTLE AND HOG
FEEo-ExPERlMENTs AT THE
STATE FARM WITH SEVERAL
MIXTURES.
Results of Various Diet Combine
tons Show Values as Flesh Pro.
dueers-com Is One Of the Best
Say stoekmen.

that food determines the size of ami
mails the Missouri University Agricul
tural experiment station, at Columbia
recently experimental with various
feeds and mixtures upon swine 10
determine this fact. Several Audrain
stockmen have bene interviewed alon
the line of feeds most beneficial to
hogs and cattle for the purpose Of
comparison with the results attained
at Columbia.
Not all foods contain the fourteen
necessary chemical elements in
amounts sufficient TO sustain growth.
One Of the best known foods which
Is thus deficient is corn. DR.. Forbes,
of Columbia, says, however, that
there is no time in the life Of any
farm animal in the corn belt when
corn may not properly be used-but
for many purposes il must be used
in moderation, and must be properly
supplemented, 81 as to provide those
nutrfments in which it is deficient.
Strange 1t may seem the specific eff
feet Of any food seems TO rest large
ly upon the mineral elements which
it contains"
The experiment was divided into
three parts-1, a comparison was
made of wheat middlings, linseed
oil, soy beans, tankage and germ oil
meal as supplements TO corn in the
dry-lot fattening of hogs for market;
2, a comparison was made of these
feeds on full-feeding of restricted
amounts; 8, observation was made O
the effects Of these rations on the
composition OF the flesh.
Where hogs are full fed on these
~rations the middlings ration was %
per cent more efficient than corn
alone, the linseed oil ration so per
cent, the soy bean ration, 1856 per
cent, the tankage ration 1926 per
cent, and the germ Oil meal ration
17.6 per cent more efficient to cause
gain in weight" says the bulletin.
Where these rations we're fed IN
practically equal but somewhat re
stricted amounts, the middlings ra
tbon was 2S.9 per cent more efficient
than corn alone, the linseed oil mea.
ration 29.S per cent, the soy bean IA
ton 22.6 per cent, the tankage ra
ton 1871 per cent, the germ oil IA
ton 1914 per cen more efficient thar
corn by itself.
The bones, muscles, liver, kidneys
lungs. heart, and spleen Of hogs fed
on corn alone are small in proportion
to the increase in weight when com
pared TO hogs fed nor portein. The
fat composes, however. an abnormal
ly large part Of the increase. Mixed
~rations are the most profitable Il
feed.
Johnson, who has raiset
hogs and with great success, say.
, you have TO have corn to get good
ones. Il believe corn is hard to beaf
as hog feed" said he. Short as ;
slop ! feed in addition and if you LEI
them pasture in clover they shoult
get size and flesh.
"slop makes them fat, blu. corr
brings the solid flesh that carries
weight with 1t. Clover is the best
pasturage we have here for hogs, al
t though in the West alfalfa Is pre-
ferred and has proved better"
County Clerk E. H. Carter, wh'
farms and is a resuh-getter, says tina
mixtures are too expensive to use, es
pecially when the present conditions
of scarce labor exist. The want o
labor keeps the planter from raising
! the crops that go to make up ingre
dents for mixtures, If he woulC
raise these and at the same TIME
give his stock the proper are hi
} must have assistance.
Glen Carroll, of near Vandalia, al
; Audrain farmer who knows how t.
fead sous no so,natimes foods meat
maai With his corn when nrenarin,
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GENTLY had a buncb of his porker.
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