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good profit in pork g-rowing. "The shriveled wheat," 

 sa}-s one prominent writer, "is a more nearly halanced ra- 

 tion than the perfect grain. The hleached wheat, while 

 light in weight, has yet nearly the food equivalent of 

 the sound wheat. Sprouted wheat has perhaps two- 

 thirds of the feeding value of the wheat before it was 

 sprouted. Millers will give little or nothing for these; 

 therefore, feed them liberally to young, growing stock." 



WHEAT BRAN AND MIDDLINGS 



Wheat middlings or shorts has an important and 

 recognized value as a feed, and economical if not too 

 high in price. As with all milling by-products, it should 

 be used in connection with corn or other feed. Mid- 

 dlings, mixed with water enough to make an attractive, 

 milky slop, and used with corn and pasture, makes a 

 pleasing ration. ^Vith matured hogs one-third mid- 

 dlings and two-thirds corn will give satisfaction, but 

 with young, growing pigs, the mixture should be two- 

 thirds middlings and one-third corn. 



Middlings is rich in protein, with a fair amount of ash, 

 and lacks the crude fiber which lowers the feeding value 

 of bran. Henry has said that "as a feed for swine at 

 all periods of their development, middlings stands pre- 

 eminent." Feeding experiments at the Maine station (Re- 

 port of 1889) gave, with the same allowance of feed, 

 twice the value to middlings as to wheat bran. Bran 

 can be fed only in limited quantities because of the small 

 capacity for bulk in the pig's stomach. 



Henry's compilation of experiments in "Feeds and 

 Feeding" shows that middlings is superior to corn when 



