THE PORK-xMAKER S MAINSTAY 2/5 



presented itself to the writer that if there is need of this 

 nieclianical improvement in the condition of corn meal 

 it may be attained at less expense by the addition of 

 w lieat bran than by the grinding of the corn cob." 



The ration with corn-and-cob meal fed in the fore- 

 going experiment contained 14.3 pounds of cob to the 

 bushel, which, said Prof. E. B. Forbes, under whose 

 direction the experiment was conducted, formed a ration 

 which "had nothing" to commend it. To give an un- 

 promising feed a fair chance, we reckoned the grinding 

 of corn-and-cob at ten cents per 100 pounds, as with corn 

 meal, considering that with a grinder especially adapted 

 to ear corn the cost might not be appreciably more than 

 with shelled corn ; but, as a matter of fact, with the best 

 grinders available, it was necessary to grind this corn- 

 and-cob meal three times before it was fine enough to 

 feed to a hog. Even then it should have been finer. In 

 Missouri there are varieties of corn which shell out only 

 about six pounds of cob per bushel and would make 

 good corn-and-cob meal for pig-feeding ; there are others 

 grown especially for large woody cobs, which shell out 

 about 25 pounds of cob to the bushel, and, if made into 

 corn-and-cob meal would be only about as ^■aluable as 

 equal parts of corn meal and sawdust."- 



In the Missouri experiment the cost of 100 pounds 

 of pork was found to be as follows with corn at 30 cents 

 a bushel; wheat middlings, $15 a ton; wheat bran, $13 

 a ton; oats, 20 cents a bushel; gluten feed, $19 a ton; 

 linseed-oil meal, $24 a ton; ground bone, $25.50 a ton; 

 cost of grinding corn, 10 cents per 100 pounds, no ac- 

 count being considered as to the cost of soaking ; 



