Public works . garbage feeding , when city garbage collections showed signsof becoming an overload for the District of Columbiareduction plant, the opportunity was grasped to get ridof some of the surplus by feeding and at the same timelearn something about this relatively new developmentin the field of garbage disposal. Two hundred pigs were purchased, and the detail ofDr. B. T. Woodward, a specialist, was fortunately ob-tained from the United States Department of Agricul-ture to supervise operations at the experimental his guidance, inspections were made of sto
Public works . garbage feeding , when city garbage collections showed signsof becoming an overload for the District of Columbiareduction plant, the opportunity was grasped to get ridof some of the surplus by feeding and at the same timelearn something about this relatively new developmentin the field of garbage disposal. Two hundred pigs were purchased, and the detail ofDr. B. T. Woodward, a specialist, was fortunately ob-tained from the United States Department of Agricul-ture to supervise operations at the experimental his guidance, inspections were made of stockyardsand a number of existing feeding enterprises. From theexperimental farm data and as a result of these inspec-tions, certain deductions were made and conclusionsreached, which are herein set forth. First of all in garbage feeding, it is necessary to de-termine the source of supply of the pigs and the contin- •Captain, Corps of Engineers, U. S. , District of Columbia. Assistant to Engineer. FIG. 1—GAHBAGE IN THE SELF-FEEDER EARLY IN THEV MORNING PREPARATORY TO TURNING THE PIGS ^3 ?:, ?• c ONTO THE CONCRETE PI^ATFORM. bred stock is essential to a successful feeding establish-ment and that ordinary farm stock is subject to diges-tive disorders when transferred to a garbage ration. I)has been maintained that successful feeders can be de-veloped only after generations of breeding from garbagefed stock. If these conditions were true, the difficulties would be-,uch as to preclude pig feeding for the disposal of thegarbage collections frcrn a city the size of Washington,requiring a turnover of from 10,000 to 12,000 pigs threet rres annual/ City garbage feeding must be recognized as a businessentirely distinct from pig breeding. This does not meanthat a garbage farm might not raise some of its ownfeeders, but if so, the breeding farm should be separatefrom that used for garbage feeding, and operated in ac-cordance with the well established rules of pig manage-m
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