A test made in New Zealand during last year to determine the value .of grazing grass for fattening bacon pigs showed that those on grass required the same amount of additional food as did sty-fed pigs and made very similar weight gains. The inference is that grass does not supply much actual food for fattening pigs.
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Southland Times, Issue 23652, 29 October 1938, Page 19
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