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in connection with corn meal." Supplementing this, 

 Professor Henry said in the Breeder's Gazette in 1902: 

 ''Wheat and oats, half and half, probably form the best 

 combination of grains that one can get for the growing 

 pig. For very young pigs, oat hulls are objectionable 

 and should be removed by sieving. All waste so removed 

 can be fed to other stock, and so nothing will be lost. 

 As the pigs grow larger, their digestive tracts become 

 more roomy and the woody matter of the oat hulls less 

 objectionable — indeed, pigs not heavily fed should have 

 sometning in the feed to extend it or give it bulk, and 

 a reasonable quantity of oat hulls is not objectionable." 



RYE 



Rj^e is an extremely heavy, concentrated feed, and the 

 grain will usually give best results when not fed to ex- 

 ceed one-third of a ration. Rye and barley are con- 

 sidered of about equal value in feeding for pork. In 

 experiments on this line at the Copenhagen, Denmark, 

 station, reported in "Feeds and Feeding," "the average 

 of II experiments with no animals shows a daily gain 

 of .865 pound for barley-fed pigs and .873 pound for 

 those fed rye." The carcasses at slaughtering gave 

 74.3 per cent dressed weight for the barley-fed hogs and 

 y^ per cent dressed weight for the rye-fed hogs. 



It is considered best to feed the hogs rye in ground 

 form and in rather a thin slop, and some feeders main- 

 tain that rye when fed dry makes a sticky mass in the 

 hog's throat on which he is liable to choke. 



Rye is much esteemed in many sections as pasture, 

 especially where the soils are rather light, and in such in- 



