PASTURES AND PIG-FATTENING

Authors

  • P.W. Smallfield

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.33584/jnzg.1936.5.867

Abstract

AT the 1935 meeting of the New Zealand Grassland Associalion McMeekan read a paper on the nutritive 'value of pastures in pigraising, and, in respect to fattening pigs, stated that grass " is not capable of materially reducing the total requirements of other food except under a low plane of feeding, the successful practice of which is dependent on economic considerations " : he gave details of two feeding trials which showed that " no measurable amount of nutriment was derived from pasture by the pigs in these trials, no significant difference either in growth-rate or in economy of foodconsumption being apparent."

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Published

1936-01-01