Value of Various Feeding Stuffs for Figs. 



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The table shows that a combination of gluten meal and com 

 meal was about seven per cent, superior to wheat meal when both 

 were fed in connection with skim milk. (161-4, 166-8) 



851. Wheat. — Because of the low price of wheat during recent 

 years, a number of Stations have endeavored to determine it« 

 value as a feed for fattening pigs. Trials at four of the Stations 

 are summarized in the following table: 



Summary of tests with wheat m,eal and com meal for pig feeding — 

 Various Stations. 



* Bui. 53. t I^n. State Bd. Agr., Sept. 30, 1894. % Bui. 38. I Kept. 1895. 



The average of the above five trials at four Stations shows that 

 six pounds more of corn meal than of wheat meal were required 

 to produce one hundred pounds of gain, live weight, with pigs. 

 The difference being so small, we may conclude that wheat meal 

 and corn meal are practically of equal value for fattening swine. 



852. Combining wheat and corn meal. — In the preceding article 

 it was shown that wheat meal and corn meal were practically of 

 equal value for pig feeding. At the Wisconsin Station, while 

 feeding wheat meal to pigs, the writer fed a mixture of corn 

 meal and wheat meal to other lots to test the value of mixtures 

 over single feeds. By these feeding trials it was shown that a 

 mixture of wheat and corn meal, equal parts, was more effective 

 than wheat meal alone, the saving by feeding the mixture amount- 

 ing to three per cent. In these results we have a good illustration 

 of the economy of feeding grains in combination rather than 



