DRY-FEEDING PIGS
AMERICAN EXPERIMENT. Wo have not heard much of the dry feeding of pigs in recent years, but the subject has cropped up again in America and a number of experiments have been made at several of the animal husbandry centres. In a series of experiments at the Minnesota University the conclusions arrived at were-
(1) Slop-fed pigs made a little more rapid gain than the dry-fed lots. (2) The dry-fed pigs, although slightly slower in making weight, made more economical use of the food, the cost of foods working out at £1 3/3 per 1001 b. liveweight as against £1 5/2} for the wet-fed pigs. For years I experimented with dry feeding against wet and found that every series of tests produced a different result; hut in the end I came to the conclusion that wet feeding gave the best results.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XX, Issue 72, 8 March 1930, Page 10
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