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meal. They are especially useful for making up part of the ration of boars oi 

 breeding sows, where the aim is to maintain vigor without unduly fattening. 



Rye. — Extensive Danish experiments, summarized by Professor Henry in 

 " Feeds and Feeding," indicate that rye and barley are about equal in value for pig 

 feeding. Very little experimental work with the grain of this cereal has been don€ 

 in America. Eye meal is best fed in combination with other kinds of meal. 



Buckwheat. — The Central Experimental Farm, Canada, reports two trials 

 in which buckwheat was compared with wheat. In the first trial, ground buck- 

 wheat was fed against ground wheat, and in this trial 445 pounds of ground buck- 

 wheat were required for 100 pounds gain, and 410 pounds ground wheat for 100 

 pounds gain. 



In the second trial, one lot of pigs was fed a mixture of one-half ground 

 buckwheat and one-half mixed meal, and the other lot a mixture of one-half ground 

 wheat and one-half mixed meal. In this trial it required 405 pounds of the buck- 

 wheat mixture for 100 pounds of gain, and 380 pounds of the wheat mixture for 

 100 pounds gain. This is a much better showing for buckwheat than might b€ 

 expected, since buckwheat has a thick, fibrous hull which the hog cannot digest. 

 Ground wheat showed an advantage of only about 8i/^ per cent, over ground buck- 

 wheat, and the wheat mixture an advantage of 6V2 per cent, over the buckwheal 

 mixture. 



Emmer. — This grain is commonly known as "spelt" or "^ speltz." Genuinf 

 spelt is aJ distinct plant, possessing general characters similar to emmer, but is a 

 smaller yielder and possesses about ten per cent, more hull than emmer. 



The South Dakota Station reports one experiment with emmer, under th< 

 name of " speltz." One lot of pigs was fed whole emmer, one ground emmer, and 

 one emmer and corn. Wliole emmer required 771 pounds of feed for 100 poundf 

 gain, ground emmer 826 pounds, and emmer and corn 529 pounds. It will be seer 

 that a marked improvement was effected when corn was added to emmer. Appar- 

 ently emmer has too much hull or husk (about 21 per cent.) to make a first-clasf 

 hog feed. Its rational use 'would be for mixing with concentrated, heavy meals to 

 give more bulk to the ration. 



Millet Seed. — The South Dakota Station (Bulletin 83) reports a com- 

 parison of millet seed with barley and wheat. The authors of the bulletin stat« 

 that millet seed can be grown profitably as a fattening ration for swine, but it does 

 not furnish as good a ration as Karley or wheat. It is also stated that it required 

 one-fifth more millet than it did barley meal, and a trifle more barley meal than it 

 did wheat, to make a pound of grain, and that a bushel of 56' pounds of millet seed 

 is equal to a bushel of 48 pounds of barley for hog feed. Millet meal produced a 

 softer quality of fat than did either barley or wheat meal. 



Beans.— Beans are best thoroughly cooked before they are fed to swine. 

 Bulletin 243 of the Michigan Experimental Station reports results from feeding 

 cull beans to growing pigs and fattening pigs. Without going into details, it may 

 be stated that an exclusive ration of beans is not regarded as satisfactory. For 

 growing pigs, a ration consisting of three parts beans and four parts corn meal 

 did not prove so satisfactory as a mixture of two parts beans, two parts wheat 

 middlings, and three parts corn meal. The last named mixture gave an average 

 daily gain per pig of about one and one-third pounds, which is regarded a? 

 satisfactory. 



