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Feeds and Feeding. 



439 pounds of the corn-middlings mixture proved as valuable as 

 522 of middlings or 537 of corn meal when fed separately. While 

 middlings were superior to corn when fed alone, a combination 

 of the two proved twenty per cent, more economical than mid- 

 dlings alone. (107, 174) 



855. Wheat bran compared with middlings. At the Maine Sta- 

 tion, * Jordan fed pigs, weighing 200 pounds each, with bran and 

 skim milk in one case, and middlings and skim milk in another, 

 the trial lasting seventy- two days, with results as below: 



Lot A fed: Gain. 



413 pounds middlings 1 tin *~ 



1,126 pounds skim milk} 110 pounds. 



Lot B fed: 



413 pounds bran \ -,. , . 

 1,126 pounds skimmilk I 4 P ounds - 



The results show that with the same allowance of feed the mid- 

 dlings were twice as valuable as the bran. (174-5, 896) 



856. Bran with corn for pig feeding. At the Alabama Station, 2 

 Duggar fed Essex pigs corn and an equal mixture of corn and 

 wheat bran for a period of sixteen weeks, there being three pigs 

 on each feed. The results are shown in the following table: 



Feeding corn or a mixture of corn and wheat bran Alabama Station. 



The two trials just reported show that wheat bran cannot suc- 

 cessfully be used in large amount in pig feeding, especially with 

 young animals. This fact is doubtless due to the coarse, fibrous 

 character of bran and the large percentage of inert matter it 

 carries. 



857. Barley meal. To ascertain the value of barley for pig 

 feeding the writer conducted trials at the Wisconsin Station 8 in 



1 Kept. 1889. 2 Bui. 82. 8 Rept. 1890. 



