544 THE SMALL GRAINS 



the various chops of oats and other small grains mixed 

 with each other or with corn, bran, shorts, ground screen- 

 ings, and rejected wheat, and maltster's and distiller's by- 

 products. 



Henry, in a compilation of results of experiments at 

 several stations, showed that the weight of wheat meal 

 required to produce 100 pounds gain, in hog feeding, 

 is several pounds greater than that required of corn 

 meal. Ground wheat has a tendency to form in a 

 gummy mass, adhering to the teeth of the animal in 

 a disagreeable way, which trouble can be avoided by 

 feeding it mixed with some other grain, as corn, oats, 

 or Kafir. 



In experiments by Georgeson, Burtis, and Otis with 

 ground wheat, corn, and red Kafir for fattening hogs, 

 wheat was found to be most effective, followed closely 

 by corn. Equal parts of corn meal and ground wheat 

 were better for pigs than either corn or wheat fed 

 separately. 



587. Experiments in North Dakota. Shepperd and 

 Richards (1906) reported that the average daily gain of 

 steers, fed on a ration of f ground barley and J bran, 

 was as high as gains made in other trials of corn as 

 the exclusive grain ration. They also concluded front 

 another series of trials that it is unsatisfactory to 

 finish steers on a ration of rejected wheat and bran, but 

 that this feed is excellent when made part of a feeding 

 period, completed with a corn and bran ration. The 

 same men concluded from two other series of experiments 

 (1909) : (1) that it is profitable to feed barley to hogs if 

 pork is selling at an average price ; (2) that when mixed 

 with shorts as a fifth part by weight it required 18 per cent 

 more barley than corn to produce the same gain in feed- 



