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Effect of Aureomycin and Vitamins on Growth and Blood Constituents of Pigs Fed Corn and Banana Rations¹

Instituto Agropecuario National and Instituto de Nutritión de Centro-América y Panamá

Abstract

The studies reported here indicated that ripe bananas, fed with their skins, satisfactorily replace corn in rations for growing and fattening pigs, but that they are more effective during the period when the pigs weighed less than 90 pounds than for heavier, older pigs.

Aureomycin increased, though not significantly, the growth of pigs fed either corn or banana rations, and also the efficiency of their feed utilization.

Aureomycin did not have any apparent effect on serum proteins, riboflavin, ascorbic acid, carotenoids, vitamin A, tocopherols, red-cell count, hemoglobin, and hematocrit in the blood of young growing pigs.

The increase in alkaline phosphatase values observed in pigs fed either corn or bananas seemed to be depressed by the addition of aureomycin to the pigs' diet.

¹ A contribution from the Instituto Agropecuario Nacional in Guatemala, a technical agricultural organization for that country operated jointly by the Government of Guatemala and by the Office of Foreign Agricultural Relations, U. S. Department of Agriculture. United States participation in this work was carried out as part of the Point IV program, administered by the Technical Cooperation Administration, U. S. Department of State. The financial assistance of the Instituto de Fomento de la Producción of Guatemala is gratefully acknowledged.

² Dr. Squibb, from the Instituto Agropecuario Nacional; Messrs. Salazar and Guzmán and Dr. Scrimshaw, from the Instituto de Nutritión de Centro-América y Panamá, Guatemala, a human nutrition institute supported by the Governments of Central America and Panama and administered by the Pan American Sanitary Bureau, Regional Office of the World Health Organization.

³ The authors acknowledge the valuable help of Dr. M. K. Wyld and Dr. Henry Hopp in the statistical analyses of the data, and of Francisco Aguirre in making the determinations of the red-cell count, hematocrit, and hemoglobin of the pigs' blood.