Value of Various Feeding Stuffs foi Pigs. 



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It will be seen that the pigs fed sheaf wheat consumed about 

 one-half as much grain as did the other lot and made only one- 

 third the gain. French reports that the pigs fed sheaf wheat 

 worked from three to four hours daily in separating the grain 

 from the straw, and the table shows that even with this exertion 

 they were not able to secure sufficient feed to permit rapid gains. 



854. Middlings. — At the Wisconsin Station, ^ the writer fed three 

 lots of three pigs each on com meal and middlings, giving the 

 first com meal, the second middlings, and the third a mixture of 

 the two, equal parts. 



At the Missouri Agricultural College, ' Sanborn conducted two 

 trials with middlings in comparison with com and com meal. 

 The results of these trials are summarized below: 

 Comparative value of middlings and corn meal for pig feeding — 

 Wisconsin Station and Missouri Agricultural College. 



Station and feed. 



Days 

 fed. 



Feed 



Gain. 



Feed for 

 100 lbs. 

 gain. 



Wisconsin Station. 



Lot I, com meal 



Lot II, middlings , 



Lot III, equal parts middlings and 

 com meal , 



MissouH College. 



Lot I, com meal 



Lot II, middlings 



Missouri College. 



Lot I, com 



Lot II, middlings 



42 



116 

 116 



Lbs. 



559 

 601 



470 



1,612 

 1,524 



397 

 334 



Lbs. 

 104 



107 



250 

 252 



Lbs. 



537 



522 



439 

 645 



502 

 367 



In these trials middlings proved superior to corn, Sanborn's 

 second trial showing a remarkably high value for this feed. This 

 investigator, commenting^ on this by-product of wheat milling, 

 writes: ''The economy of ship-stuff (middlings) compared with 

 corn has been noted by me every year for seven years, the figures 

 of which are as 108 to 100." 



The economy of feeding middlings and com meal in combina- 

 tion instead of separately is shown in the Wisconsin trial, where 



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