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are used quite freely as one of the grain feeds. It 

 is generally recognized that middlings is a desirable 

 feed to combine with corn. Middlings may be 

 at times too expensive, but if the price is reasonable 

 this food will yield fine profits in pork. Dried 

 distiller's grains have also been tested in feeding 

 pigs, but they proved to be a very poor material 

 for this purpose. At the most they should not 

 constitute more than one- third of the grain ration. 

 When fed to the extent of one-third or one-half of 

 the ration, with corn as the rest of the grain the 

 results showed that there was no profit. In many 

 of the western states millet is cultivated to an ex- 

 tent which makes it an available food for hogs and 

 other farm animals. Millet should be fed ground 

 and when prepared in this way may be offered to 

 hogs ad libitum. It is not quite equal to wheat or 

 barley, but in localities to which it is adapted it 

 should have a place in the rotation of crops for pig 

 feed. While hogs relish millet and thrive on it the 

 results are not so profitable if it is fed as an 

 exclusive grain ration for long periods. Thus, in 

 North Dakota excellent results were obtained for 

 a period of fifty days, while in a longer period of 

 eighty-four days the rate of gain diminished. Ap- 

 parently, a bushel of millet weighing fifty-six pounds 

 is equal as pig feed to a bushel of barley weighing 

 forty-nine pounds, but pound for pound it requires 

 more millet than barley or wheat to produce a 

 given amount of pork. 



Soy-beans are excellent for pigs when mixed with 

 corn in the proportion of one to two. On account 

 of their high protein content this proportion of soy- 

 beans is sufficient to balance a ration of corn in a 

 very satisfactory manner. In the test where soy- 

 beans were compared with middlings the greatest 



