364 SWINE IN AMERICA 



Mn^LET SEED 



Prof. James W. Wilson, at the South Dakota station 

 (Bulletin No. 83), made tests extending through 84 days 

 with six Yorkshire pigs divided into three lots, to ascer- 

 tain the feeding value of millet seed as a swine food in 

 comparison with wheat and barley. All three grains were 

 ground before feeding. The results justified the con- 

 clusion that millet seed does not furnish as good a ration 

 for swine as either barley or wheat ; it required 20 per 

 cent more millet than it did barley, and a trifle more 

 barley than it did wheat to make a pound of gain; a 

 bushel, or 56 pounds, of millet seed is equal for hog-feed 

 to 48 pounds of barley ; it is not so good a fattening feed 

 in extremely cold weather as barley or wheat meal, and 

 it produces a softer quality of fat than barley or wheat. 



The color of the lean meat in the millet and wheat 

 lots was lighter than that of the barley lot. "The fat 

 on the wheat and barley carcasses was several shades 

 darker than the fat made from millet ; in fact, it had a 

 yellow tinge not noticeable in the millet lot, while the 

 color of the fat on the carcasses that had been fed millet 

 was pure white, and was pronounced by the local butcher 

 as being of superior quality to that of the other carcasses, 

 although not so firm in texture." 



"On account of being so well adapted to the conditions 

 there," says Professor Wilson, "and so palatable a feed, 

 millet should have a place in the rotation of crops on 

 every stock farm in South Dakota." 



ADUIiTE RATED GROUND FEEDS 



The temptation to meet the demand for a low-priced 

 feed by utilizing by-products has not infrequently led 



