Eggs and egg farms : Trustworthy information regarding the successful production of eggs--the construction plans of poultry buildings and the methods of feeding that make egg farming most profitable .. eggseggfarmstrus00reli Year: 1907 THE EGG INDUSTRY are not due to the feeding value of the alfalfa alone, but also to its influence in aiding the hogs to better digest the KafBr- corn. The alfalfa hay also gave a variety to the ration, mak- ing it more appetizing and inducing the hogs to eat more grain. * * « The hay fed hogs ate more grain and gained more for each bushel eaten. 'In a former e
Eggs and egg farms : Trustworthy information regarding the successful production of eggs--the construction plans of poultry buildings and the methods of feeding that make egg farming most profitable .. eggseggfarmstrus00reli Year: 1907 THE EGG INDUSTRY are not due to the feeding value of the alfalfa alone, but also to its influence in aiding the hogs to better digest the KafBr- corn. The alfalfa hay also gave a variety to the ration, mak- ing it more appetizing and inducing the hogs to eat more grain. * * « The hay fed hogs ate more grain and gained more for each bushel eaten. 'In a former experiment at this college pigs were past- ured through the summer on alfalfa with a light feeding of corn. After deducting the probable gain from the corn, the gain per acre from the alfalfa pasture was 776 pounds of pork.' We do not wish to suggest that the digestive organs of hogs and poultry are alike; they differ materially, but we quote this instance in order to indicate the fact that a costly concentrated food may be made more nutritious by the addi- tion of a bulky food. Those breeders of poultry who have used alfalfa would not be without it, and there is every reason to suppose that its use results as satisfactorily as in hog feeding. We are not to We are not sure that the final conclusion of the experi- menter is quite correct. Referring to the last experiment, in which the use of animal meal resulted most favorably, he says: 'The results have been twice favorable to bone, and twice to animal meal, but this last experiment is more de- cisive than any preceeding.' If that be so, we do not understand the facts. We have before us details of two of the experiments, including that from which we have quoted. In the test wherein the meal fed fowls came out ahead, the cost per egg from them was about three-quarters the cost of those from the bone fed fowls; while in the test wherein the bone fed fowls were winners the eggs' from them cost only about one-half the cost of those
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