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John Fields, formerly director of the Oklahoma ex- 

 periment station, says: "Cottonseed isn't good feed for 

 hogs, and when you try to use it for that purpose you run 

 the risk of heavy loss." 



RICE BY-PRODUCTS 



Rice by-products have been satisfactorily used for 

 feeding swine, and for this, rice meal, which includes all 

 tlie by-products after cleaning the rice, has been found 

 C(jual to corn meal. It is claimed by Southern feeders 

 that exclusive or excessive feeding on rice meal has a 

 tendency to weaken the intestines of hogs. 



The South Carolina station conducted experiments in 

 1900 to determine the value of rice meal, using corn 

 meal as the standard. Six Berkshire pigs, of uniform 

 age and size, were dix-ided into two lois and fed for 6i 

 days, beginning early in July. The meal was mixed with 

 separator skim milk, which contained but little fat, and 

 they were fed all that they would clean up. This was 

 four pounds of meal and i6 pounds of milk per head at 

 the beginning, and increased as they would take it. One 

 lot was fed corn meal and milk, and the other rice meal 

 and milk for 39 days, when the feeding was reversed, 

 and the lot which had pre\iously received one kind of 

 meal was given the other for the remainder of the period. 

 Water was furnished at noon each day, but it was noticed 

 that the pigs drank but little. Feed valuations were set 

 at $20 per ton for corn meal, $15 per ton for rice meal, 

 and 20 cents p( r 100 pounds for skim milk. The re- 

 sults for the entire experimetit were tabulated as follows : 



