Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 57, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 March 1919 — Food Producers. [ARTICLE]

Food Producers.

The pig and not the ox, It appears, Is the most efficient food producer, though all animals show a large loss In transforming vegetable products into meat Gouin and Andouard stated to the French Academy of Agriculture that the pig returns as pork about 25 per cent of Its food, while the ox eats at least eight pounds of vegetables to make one pound of meat, and with other domestic beasts tbe loss is about 85 per cent The hen may yield 15 per cent of Its corn as eggs, and the milch cow does a little better with a return of milk equal to 20 per cent of its food.—Newark News.