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Making Good Pork

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Parent Issue
Day
20
Month
November
Year
1896
Copyright
Public Domain
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If you waut to produce less fat and more lean, introduce into the rations foods of a nitrogeneous character. Middlings, liominy meal, peanut rneal and skiramilk present a combinatiou sufficiently nitrogeneous for pigs of 4 montba. This ralion is being fed with great success, according to Country Gentleman, tüe source of the following, which represents the proper mixture for 4 rucnths pigs: CarbohyProtein. tlrates. Fats. 12 lbs. skimmilk 0.37 . 0.48 0.10 1 lb. peaiiut meal 0.40 0.27 0.05 1 lb. middlings 0.12 0.47 0.03 3 lbs. hominy meal 0.27 1.86 0.19 Total l.lfi 3.08 0.37 Tbis ration shows a desirable proportion of ingredients for inducing a growtfa of lean meat and may be modified in qnantity to suit the size and appetites of the anmials. The authority quoted doubts the wisdom of growing pigs above 250 pounds live ■weight.

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Old News
Ann Arbor Democrat