CHAPTER XIV. 



Grains and Ground Feeds 



Througliout tlie greater portion of the hog raising 

 territory of the United States, wheat and all other grains 

 are valued as foods for live stock by comparison with In- 

 dian corn, and their use is either as a balance for corn, 

 or as a substitute in time of scarcity and high price. Out- 

 side the corn growing territory the small grains generally 

 form the basis of animal rations. In either situation a 

 working knowledge of the values of various small grains 

 for feeding swine may be the means of yielding a profit 

 not to be despised. 



WHEAT 



Up to recent times the man who used his surplus wheat 

 as a substitute for corn in st(Ki< feeding was an object of 

 more or less criticism or ridicule l)y his neighbors and in 

 the farm press. In 1893, howe\er, an accumulation of 

 wlieat and a subsequent low price, coincident with a 

 shortage of and high prices for corn in many states, in- 

 duced many farmers to feed wheat to tlieir live stock. 

 The results and the experiments conducted since that 

 time ha\e made the feeding value of wheat much better 

 miderstood and more generally recognized, and where a 

 prolit would accrue it has since been considered emi- 

 nently proper to feed wheat to farm animals. 



