American Factories Continue to Increase Equipment Investment——Competitors in Asia also increased their consumption of machine tools.

去年美国金属加工工厂对新机床产品的需求量较 2004 年和 2003 年都有增加。消沉中的美国资本投资发生了一个转变,排在德国之前成为第三大消费国。然而对于美国机床业来说,不太好的消息是亚洲竞争对手同样增加了他们在机床的设备投资。来自第 41 次世界机床生产和消费的调查显示,中国、日本、韩国、印度以及中国台湾地区的机床消费都有显著增长。在 28 个国家和地区的调查中,四分之三的国家和地区消费都在增长,这同时也诠释了经济“表面消费”的含义。这一切表明美国的机床消费量还会继续保持增加,订购机器的数量会维持向上的势头,最新的数据也证明了这一点。此外,调查数据还罗列了其它国家,尤其是亚洲国家的机床生产情况(本刊2006 年第一期环球瞭望栏目文章图表中显示了世界主要机床生产状况):德国和日本领导着世界机床的生产;中国超过意大利成为第三大机床生产国;中国台湾地区排在第五位;美国机床的生产和出口排在台湾之后,保持小的增长;韩国与瑞士紧追其后;印度也毫不示弱。这28个被调查国家和地区的机床产量都比前一年平均增长了14% 。中国、日本、韩国、印度以及中国台湾地区占据了整个调查地区机床产量的 47.6% ,作为CECIMO 成员的由 15 个国家组成的西欧联盟占据了机床产量的 4 2 . 3 % 。

Feeding Effect of Growing-Finishing Pigs under Fine Division of Feeding Stages

In order to study the feeding effect of fine division of feeding stages on the growing-finishing pigs,96 healthy Duroc × Landrace ×Yorkshire hybrid commercial pigs with similar age in days,size,and body weight about 15 kg,half boars and half sows,randomly divided into3 treatments( each treatment repeated 4 times,and each repetition 8 pigs). According to the body weight division standard,three stages,four stages,and five stages of feeding were adopted separately. The daily ration of with different nutrition levels was used,body weight and feed consumption were measured,and effects of different feeding methods on body weight increase,feed utilization,and economic benefits of growing-finishing pigs. The results showed that compared with the three-stage feeding,the body weight of five-stage and four-stage feeding increased by 4. 18%( P < 0. 01) and 2. 41%( P < 0. 05),respectively,and the body weight of five-stage feeding increased by 1. 74%( P < 0. 05) compared with that of four-stage feeding; the daily feed consumption of five-stage and four-stage feeding increased 3. 10%( P < 0. 01) and 1. 70%(P <0. 01),respectively,and the daily feed consumption of five-stage feeding was 1. 37% higher than that of four-stage feeding. The feed cost of five-stage feeding and four-stage feeding increased 3. 32%( P < 0. 01) and 1. 61%( P < 0. 05) separately,and the feed cost of five-stage feeding was 1. 69% higher than that of four-stage feeding( P < 0. 01). The income from average body weight increase of five-stage and fourstage feeding increased by 5. 47%( P < 0. 01) and 3. 59%( P < 0. 01) respectively,and the benefit of average body weight increase of fivestage feeding was 1. 81% higher than that of four-stage feeding( P > 0. 05). The crude protein consumption from average body weight increase of five-stage and four-stage feeding decreased by 2. 28%( P < 0. 01) and 1. 68%( P < 0. 01),respectively; the crude protein consumption from average body weight increase of five-stage feeding was 0. 67% lower than that of four-stage feeding; the feed conversion ratio of five-stage feeding,four-stage feeding,and three-stage feeding was 2. 92,2. 93,and 2. 95 respectively. The results showed that compared with the threestage feeding,the four-stage and five-stage feeding could significantly increase the body weight of the growing-finishing pigs,improve the feed utilization level and improve the economic benefits,and the effect of five-stage feeding was better than the four-stage feeding.