A review of the work of the Experimental Farms . ing stock live out-of-doors practically the wholeyear round, and feed upon such cheap foods as pasture, roots, soilingcrops and clover hay with very little grain food. Of course, whenthe sows are suckling litters, a richer diet must be given for thebenefit of the family, but at other seasons, the food of the sows isof a cheap character. The only protection given the sows during the winter (and thetemperature at Ottawa often reaches 15 deg. below zero) is small, 42 single-board cabins, and these also provide shade during the food consi
A review of the work of the Experimental Farms . ing stock live out-of-doors practically the wholeyear round, and feed upon such cheap foods as pasture, roots, soilingcrops and clover hay with very little grain food. Of course, whenthe sows are suckling litters, a richer diet must be given for thebenefit of the family, but at other seasons, the food of the sows isof a cheap character. The only protection given the sows during the winter (and thetemperature at Ottawa often reaches 15 deg. below zero) is small, 42 single-board cabins, and these also provide shade during the food consists chiefly of roots and clover hay (the latter fed wholein racks) with a small quantity of shorts and bran. Sows under ayear old require more grain food to provide for growth. The costper day when dry from November I to April i, amounted to about4 cents per day for mature animals and half a cent more for growinganimals that required better feeding. In the early months of thewinter, very little grain is fed but towards spring, as farrowing time. Ideal bacon. is approaching, it has been found necessary to increase the amountof meal fed. Sows wintered and fed in this way remain active andhealthy and almost invariably yield strong litters which they after-wards nourish well. At the Central, the Brandon and the Indian Head Farms, re-peated tests have been made in feeding hogs on wheat that had beenfrosted. In every case, it was shown that frozen wheat gave excellentresults, producing pork at a cost slightly less than 4 cents per wheat should be finely ground and fed with caution and to veryyoung pigs, in only very limited quantities. The value of roots for feeding swine was arrived at by comparingthem with clover and alfalfa pasture. The roots consisted of mangels,sugar beets and carrots and were pastured by the pigs. In anothertest, the roots were given to the pigs in pens. Fed in pens on rootsthe cost per 100 Ibs. of gain was $ When meal was addedto the roots in th
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