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often they feed corn and alfalfa when corn 

 costs $1.30 or more per hundred pounds, and 

 wheat or barley could be obtained for consider- 

 ably less. Some Colorado experiments show 

 that when lambs were finished on wheat this 

 COMPARA- grain gave a value 15 per cent, greater than corn, 

 TIVE VALUES an( j avera g e results show that wheat is equal to 



OP FEEDS 



or a little better than corn, pound for pound. 

 Barley is worth a little less than wheat in gen- 

 eral feeding value, but it is easier to feed and 

 often the difference in price makes barley the 

 most profitable grain to use. Oats, spelt, or 

 barley are, undoubtedly, better grains to feed to 

 breeding stock than corn. The western farmer 

 should get away from some of his old ideas and 

 take hold of a few new ones. Undoubtedly corn 

 is one of the best feed grains in the world and 

 corn fodder seems to be more valuable than al- 

 most any other roughage of that nature. Al- 

 falfa hay is worth from two to three times as 

 much as corn fodder. The following table of 

 comparative food values, furnished by Dr. B. F. 

 Kaupp, is of considerable interest : 



ROUGHNESS. 



Value a ton when alfalfa is worth $1.00 a ton. 



Total 



DRY ROUGHAGE. Nutrients 



Alfalfa $1.00 



Corn fodder 32 



Cow peas .97 



Fodder corn 40 



Millet 64 



Oat hay 59 



Oat straw . .33 



