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HOW TO FEED YOUR HOGS 



corn germs or embryos as 56 pounds of the original shelled corn. 

 The man who has been accustomed to corn feeding can feed hominy 

 feed to advantage, because he can go ahead and use it exactly as 

 he does corn, with the exception that less supplement is required. 

 We must not expect quite so rapid a gain, presumably, because of 

 the higher fibre content. As this book goes to press there appears 

 a Purdue Bulletin showing that recent Corn and Hominy feed 

 tests give results showing corn superior. 



Experimental Results. Skinner and King of the Indiana sta- 

 tion and Eastwood of Ohio have found that their kind of hominy 

 feeds apparently are worth more than corn, pound for pound, but 

 in our Ames tests we have found continuously that good, dry corn 

 is more valuable, pound for pound, than hominy feed. Inasmuch 

 as the moisture contents are not given for the corn in the Ohio and 

 Indiana tests by monthly periods, it is hard to say just what quality 

 of corn the hominy feed was compared with. Our comparisons are 

 all made on the basis of 14 percent moisture corn grain. Ames 

 results secured by the author in conjunction with Dunn, pigs being 

 run from weaning time to the time when they weighed 245 pounds, 

 may be of interest. Two lots were fed. Lot 1 was given shelled 

 corn and 60 percent meatmeal tankage and salt in separate feeders ; 

 whereas Lot 2 was fed exactly the same except that instead of 

 shelled corn being allowed in one feeder, hominy feed replaced it. 

 The following table shows the results of carrying the pigs from 49 

 to 225 pounds weight, approximately : 



The results on this bluegrass pasture show clearly that more 

 rapid gains are made on shelled corn than on hominy feed, being 

 more than 8 percent more rapid. The total of feed eaten daily is 

 about the same, but the feed required for 100 pounds of gain shows 

 considerable difference, or approximately 11 percent more feed is 

 required with hominy feed than with corn. With hominy feed it 

 took eleven days longer to reach the same weight, the pigs gained 

 more than 8 percent less rapidly and required more than 11 per- 

 cent more feed for 100 pounds of gain than corn, but let us remem- 

 ber that the hominy feed saved tankage some 25 percent on each 



