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Hog Feeds. 



Fourteen brands of hog and pig feeds were collected. They contained a wide 

 variety of materials, and it is doubtful if any of them are superior to a mixture of 

 ground oats, corn meal and middlings and 5 to 10 per cent of high-grade feeding tank- 

 age. Their use is not advised unless they can be purchased at a cost lower than the 

 above mixture. 



Calf Meals. 



The calf meals collected were composed of a wide variety of materials and sold at 

 from 5 to 7-g cents a pound. Where skim milk is not available, any of the calf meals 

 analyzed would probably serve for the purpose intended, although the more com- 

 plicated formulas will not probably prove any more satisfactory than the simpler. 

 Ryde's and Tioga brands contained cottonseed meal. Evidence is on record indicating 

 that cottonseed meal is not a safe feed for young calves; neither is it believed that cocoa 

 shell meal, as found in Stevens' Milkade or Ryde's Cream Calf Meal, is of material 

 benefit. Fenugreek and anise, also found in these two meals, may have some slight 

 stimulating effect on the stomach digestion. 



Where skim milk is available, calves can be raised without recourse to the calf 

 meals by adding flour middlings or meals of the cereal grains to the skim milk as a 

 carbohydrate substitute for the butter fat removed in skimming. 



Miscellaneous Feeds. 



The three feeds noted below can best be classed as wheat mixed feed substitutes. 

 Welden Feed and Green Tag Mixed Feed were both excellent products and consisted 

 of a mixture of wheat and corn products. Golden Grist Mixed Feed consisted of 

 wheat feed as a base, together with oat feed and other by-products. 



Mixed Cereal Meals. 



Several brands of provender (corn and oats) and one brand of corn, oats and barley 

 (Monopoly Feed) are reported. They were free from adulteration, and can be con- 

 sidered as satisfactory as the cereal meals from which they are made. 



Stock and Horse Feeds. 



Mix 500 or 600 pounds of oat feed (oat hulls, shorts and middlings) with enough 

 corn and hominy meal or similar material of low fiber content to form 1 ton, and the 

 result will be a typical stock or horse feed. The products analyzed and found to con- 

 tain 10 per cent or more of fiber contain a more liberal proportion of oat feed, or else 

 poor judgment has been used in selecting material with which to mix it. While oat 

 feed has been found to be slightly superior to mixed hay in feeding value, its analysis 

 indicates that it should be classed as a roughage and not as a concentrate, and its 

 value either in a mixture or by itself should be judged on this basis. 



