386 SWINE IN AMERICA 



"78.6 pounds of rice polish were equal to 100 pounds of 

 corn meal, a saving of 21.4 per cent of the grain by the 

 use of polish in lieu of corn meal." In 1900 the Ala- 

 bama station paid $26 per ton for rice polish, and in 

 1902 it was quoted from the same source at $17.90 

 per ton. 



Mr. E. J. Fellows made extensive experiments in 1906 

 with rice bran at Springfield, Missouri, where he main- 

 tained as many as 1,200 hogs at a time. The rice bran 

 was made into a slop, mixed in large tanks, and used in 

 connection with corn ; at 200 pounds weight the hog was 

 given three pounds of rice bran a day and two pounds 

 of corn. Mr. Fellows says : "Rice bran, when pure, is 

 a splendid hog feed, but in the last two years it has 

 been impossible to get good goods on account of adul- 

 teration with rice hulls." Rice hulls contain about 13 

 per cent ash and 35 per cent crude fiber and are ground 

 up so that they have the appearance of bran, and mixed 

 with the pure bran to be sold as "rice feed" or "pure rice 

 bran." As the hulls have little, if any, feeding value, 

 such an adulteration materially reduces the worth of any 

 rice by-product. 



PACKING HOUSE BY-PRODUCTS 



Scraps and trimmings of meat and bone from the 

 packing houses, which were formerly utilized in ferti- 

 lizer manufacture, are now converted into an appetizing 

 and protein-furnishing food for swine, for which there 

 is developing a demand taxing the houses to supply. 

 Dried blood and slaughter-house waste likewise come 

 within this class of feeds. 



