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Feeds and Feeding. 



856. Buckwheat. In a trial lasting 77 days at the Ottawa Ex- 

 perimental Farms 1 Robertson fed lots of five 100-lb. pigs on ground 

 buckwheat and ground wheat soaked 30 hours before feeding, with 

 the results given below: 



Buckwheat meal compared with wheat meal. 



It is shown that while buckwheat has a high value it is hardly 

 equal to wheat as a feed for pigs a reasonable conclusion, for wheat 

 is one of the most potent of grains. In another trial R. Robertson 

 of the Nappan, Nova Scotia, Experimental Farm 2 found that buck- 

 wheat, fed with skim milk to 85-lb. pigs, was a little lower in feed- 

 ing value than the same weight of wheat middlings. Grisdale of 

 the Ottawa Experimental Farms 3 states that buckwheat produces a 

 poor quality of bacon. (180) 



857. Emmer (speltz). In a trial at the Nebraska Station* lasting 

 94 days, Burnett and Snyder compared emmer meal with corn and 

 barley meal as a feed for fattening pigs. In a second trial lasting 

 42 days, an allowance of half emmer and half corn meal was fed 

 against one of corn meal only. In both trials alfalfa hay was fed 

 to the pigs in addition to the meal : 



Emmer meal compared with corn and barley meal for pigs. 



The table shows that in the first trial it required 148 Ibs., or 31 

 per ct., more emmer meal than corn meal, and 5 per ct. more emmer 

 meal than barley meal, to produce 100 Ibs. of gain. In the second 



1 Rpt. 1894. 



2 Ottawa Expt. Farms, Ept. 1901. 



8 Bui. 51. 

 * Bui. 99. 



