Value of Various Feeding Stuffs for Swine. 



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Two of the trials show that the barley-fed pigs made as rapid 

 gains as those on corn, but in three cases it required more barley 

 than corn for a given gain. Fed alone, barley has about 10 per ct. 

 less value than corn for fattening swine. However, barley should 

 never be fed separately, but always in combination with corn, wheat 

 middlings, skim milk, roots, alfalfa, etc., when it will be found one 

 of the best of feeds for pork production. Barley kernels, being 

 small and hard, should always be ground or, better, rolled before 

 feeding. (171) 



855. Oats. At the Wisconsin Station 1 the author fed whole and 

 ground oats with corn meal to 115-lb. pigs for 60 days with the 

 following results: 



Whole oats compared with ground oats. 



We observe that the pigs getting whole oats ate less feed and 

 gave poorer returns than those fed ground oats. The best returns 

 were with a ration of one-third ground oats and two-thirds ground 

 corn. In both trials the feed requirements for 100 Ibs. of gain were 

 very low where ground oats were used, showing the high value of 

 ground oats when combined with corn. 



Grisdale of the Ottawa Experimental Farms 2 found that pigs fed 

 soaked shelled corn and skim milk made 49 per ct. greater gains 

 than those fed soaked whole oats and skim milk a good example 

 of the great waste which follows the wrong combination of feeding 

 stuffs. Oats and corn, or skim milk and corn, are proper combina- 

 tions, while oats and skim milk are not. Again, oats must be ground 

 if they are to be fed in quantity to swine, especially when the pigs 

 are young. For pigs while still quite small there is nothing more 

 helpful than ground oats with the hulls sieved out. For breeding 

 stock and for shotes not being fattened, there is no more useful feed 

 than whole oats, fed by scattering thinly on the ground or on a 

 feeding floor. (169) 



- ftpt. 1889. 



Bui. 51. 



