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been found that, when purchased at the same 

 price, corn has a feeding value greater than a\ 

 mixture of wheat, barley and oats. Emmer in j 

 the western states has proved about equal to corn 

 in feeding value for sheep. Among the feeds 

 which may be used with corn, emmer deserves 

 considerable attention. This grain has been found 

 to be worth twenty-seven cents when corn is worth 

 forty cents. Soy-beans as a supplemental feed 

 with corn are of great effectiveness and show a 

 feeding value somewhat superior to corn. Gluten 

 feed, gluten meal and various leguminous hays 

 may also be fed with corn to balance the ration. 

 Pound for pound, however, corn is rather more 

 effective than emmer for sheep. In South Dakota 

 considerable attention has been given to emmer 

 or speltz as it is quite commonly known, and this 

 grain was directly compared with barley. In 

 this test it was found that emmer produced a profit 

 of forty-four cents per lamb during a feeding period 

 of ordinary length, while barley gave a profit of 

 ninety-two cents. The conclusion was, therefore, 

 drawn that emmer is worth about two-thirds as 

 much as barley for feeding to lambs. Throughout 

 all the great grain growing areas immense quan- 

 tities of screenings are available for use. This 

 material consists of shrunken and broken kernels 

 of wheat together with various weed seeds, de- 

 pending on the part of the country in which it 

 is grown. Screenings have proven in hundreds 

 of experiments to be a very important grain feed 

 for sheep. In one instance wheat screenings 

 were compared with wheat, oats and barley and a 

 mixture of these grains in a ration containing 

 clover hay as the coarse forage. The screenings 

 proved to be the cheapest and most efficient gram 



