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compared with it for feeding dairy cattle. It was found 

 excellent also for hogs, but fed whole, without soaking, it 

 is used at a disadvantage. If ground and made into 

 slops, it is invaluable for suckling sows and for pigs before 

 and after weaning (Coburn, 1894). 



Chilcott (1894, pp. 4-5) decided that in South Dakota, 

 wheat, at the price it was then bringing, could be profit- 

 ably fed to hogs as an entire ration, but was better mixed 

 with some other food. Later Chilcott and Thornber 

 (1901) compared barley and emmer for fattening sheep and 

 lambs, the whole grain being fed, and found that barley 

 was worth 50 per cent more a bushel for fattening lambs, 

 as a single grain ration, than emmer, and gave about 

 twice the profit in fattening sheep, that resulted in feed- 

 ing emmer. 



Faville (1909), at the Wyoming Experiment Station, 

 determined (1) that barley as a feed may be used to 

 advantage as a corn substitute, and (2) that corn and 

 Scotch barley, when fed with alfalfa, were nearly equal 

 in value for mutton production, with barley a shade the 

 better. 



586. Feeding the ground products. While feeding 

 the whole grain of small cereals has given excellent results, 

 it is probable that soaking or grinding the grain will give 

 sufficient further profit to cover more than the cost of the 

 operation. Experiments of Shaw and Norton (1906) 

 showed that the animal derives no benefit from grain which 

 passes through the digestive tract unmasticated, and that 

 even its viability is not entirely destroyed, as 4.3 per 

 cent of the corn and 10.6 per cent of the oats germinated 

 after such passage. The swallowing of whole kernels is, 

 therefore, a waste of both food value and energy in eating. 



The different cereal products used in stock feeding are 



