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weight. The table shows a wide range of returns — as 

 low as 6.9 pounds of gain from a bushel of corn in 

 one case, while at the other extreme we have 16.8 

 pounds. This last return, for one week only, was with 

 hogs which had previously followed steers fed corn on 

 blue grass pasture. "While, then," said Professor Mor- 

 row, "the gains may range from six to 16 pounds, we 

 may conclude that 1 1 pounds of increase, live weight, 

 is a satisfactory return from a bushel of whole corn." 



CORN MEAL AND CORN-AND-COB MEAL 



Fattening hogs will usually finish faster on corn meal 

 than on slielled corn, and many farmers favor corn meal 

 for that reason. Experiments covering the quantity fed 

 l)lainly show, howexer, that hogs given corn meal eat 

 more feed in a given time than those on shelled corn. 

 When both the feed eaten and the gains made are taken 

 into consideration, the profit in favor of corn meal is con- 

 siderably less than many suppose. Corn-and-cob meal has 

 been shown to have about the same value as pure corn 

 meal; if any advantage is had from corn-and-cob meal, 

 as is claimed by some stockmen, it no doubt largely 

 comes from the bulk furnished by the particles of cob, 

 which by rendering the contents of the stomach less 

 compact or more porous helps to their easier and more 

 complete digestion. 



The Missouri station conducted a number of experi- 

 ments in 1904 testing corn meal and corn-and-cob meal in 

 comparison with other rations for dry-lot feeding (Bulle- 

 tin N(i. 65), concerning which the following was re- 

 ported : "Corn-and-cob meal has had advocates for many 



