MINERALS FOR PIGS
VALUABLE EXPERIMENTS.
Some valuable information relative to the importance of adding mineral water to the usual grain ration of pigs has been secured at the Agassiz Experimental Farm during the last two winters. The mineral mixture used was composed of ground bone meal, 8 lbs; ground charcoal, 5 lbs; ground rock phosphate, 50 lbs; and salt, 3 lbs; at a cost of 2.7 cents per lb. It was fed at the rate of 3 lbs to each 100 lbs of meal. In order to test this .material a total of 84 pigs were divided into 14 lots of 6 pigs each. In every ration where the mineral mixtures were fed increased gains were secured. This applied not only when the trough-feeding method was followed, but also when the meal ration was supplemented with cooked potatoes. In one instance there was a profit of 7.85 dollars in favour of the mineral ration. An increase of 6 per cent of mineral matter proved unsatisfactory, and gave similar results to a ration supplemented with 2 per cent of rock phosphate. "When other mineral matter is not available, ordinary wood or coal ashes thrown on the floor give good results.
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Waipa Post, Volume XXIV, Issue 1688, 19 November 1925, Page 2
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