Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1925-08-06
Results of Soft
Pork Experiments
Government and State Rep
resentatives Agree on
Certain Findings.

Certain Findings.
prepared by the United States Department
of Agriculture.)
At meeting held in Atlanta, Ca,
recently, representative of the United
States Department of Agriculture and
of a number Of state experiment sta
tons agreed to certain conclusions on
the soft pork problem. Their an
nouncements made below are based
upon the evidence accumulated in re-
cent years, including additional data
made available during the past II
months. The states represented at the
conference were Alabama, Arkansas,
Georgia, Mississippi, North Carolina,
South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia,
Pennsylvania and Indiana. In addi-
ton there were men from the United
States Department of Agriculture, in
Guiding those from the departments
Coastal Plain experiment station in
Mississippi and it's Iberia live stock
experiment farm in Louisiana.
Effects of Rice Bran.
AuS uIot results ISSdIulnS Tie SASClS
of rice bran on the softness of car
casses were Incorporated for this year
for the first time.
The conclusions agreed upon are as
follows:
1, Peanuts grazed or settled in dry
starting at weights ranging from 50
to 115 pounds and making gains Of ap-
proximately 40 pounds or more on that
feed through period of approximately
eight weeks will not produce firm car
casses at the usual market weight of
quent feeding of corn with tankage
after the peanuts.
Results have shown, in fact, that
gain on corn with tankage up to ap-
proximately 120 pounds, this maximum
being produced during feeding period
Of approximately 16 weeks duration,
following gains of 40 pounds or more
on peanuts, usually will not produce
hard or medium hard hogs. AS the
gain on peanuts increases the subse-
quent gain on corn with tankage neces-
sary to produce certain degree of
f1rmness likewise increases.
2. Soy beans grazed alone or with
minerals settled to pigs starting at
weights ranging from 50 to 100 pounds
and making at least a moderate rate
of gain through period Of from six
to eight weeks will not produce firm
carcasses in the usual case even
though a subsequent gain in weight
has been made by the pigs on corn
with tankage double that previously
made on soy beans.
3. Soy beans grazed with supple
mentary ration of PA per cent of
shelled com with or without minerals
settled to pigs starting at weights
ranging from 85 to lis pounds and
making gains of approximately 20 to
60 pounds through period of from
six to eight weeks will not produce
firm carcasses In the usual case even
though a subsequent gain In weight
has been made by the pigs on corn
with tankage equal to that previously
made on the soy-bean PA per cent corn
ration.
The Heavier Pigs.
f. Soy beans grazed with a supple
mentary ration Of 21a per cent of
sheIled corn with or without minerals
settled to pigs starting at weights Of
115 pounds and over and making gains
Of approximately 40 to 90 pounds
through a period of from six to eight
weeks will produce firm carcasses in
the usual case provided a subsequent
gain in weight is made on corn with
tankage one and one-half times that
previously made on the soy-bean 211a
per cent corn ration.
5. Rice bran and tankage settled
free choice on rye pasture or in dry lot
and with or without supplement of
five pounds or less of skim milk per
animal daily to pigs starting at weights
under 100 pounds and making gains
up to 100 pounds through a feeding
period of from eight to sixteen weeks
produce soft carcasseS.
6. Rice polish and tankage settled
free choice on oat or rye pasture or in
dry lot to pigs starting at weights I'M
der 100 pounds and making gains Of
35 pounds or more through a period Of
from five to eight weeks will not
produce firm carcasses in the usual
case even though a subsequent gain in
weight has been made by the pigs on
corn with tankage equal to that pre-
| viouSIv made on the rice polish ration