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The symptoms of acorn poisoning are : " Progressive 

 wasting, loss of appetite, diarrhoea, eyes sunken, sore 

 places inside of mouth, in fact animal has a peculiarly 

 haggard appearance. The temperature does not rise 

 above normal, and is often below the normal tempera- 

 ture." See Board of Agriculture leaflet, No. 13. 



Pigs relish the acorns, and with a plentiful supply 

 soon put on flesh. The flesh, however, is apt to be soft 

 and the fat oily. 



The fresh acorns contain about 2j per cent, 

 albuminoids, 2 per cent, fat, and 35 per cent, carbo- 

 hydrates. When dried, the amount of each constituent 

 runs up to very nearly double in each case. The 

 nutrients are very digestible. 



Buckwheat (Fagapyrum esculentuvi). Is a triangular 

 seed with a fibrous coat. It is fairly rich in albuminoids 

 (IT per cent.) and carbohydrates (55 per cent.), but 

 poor in oil (2\ per cent.) and high in fibre (15 per cent). 

 Used chiefly for poultry. 



(/i) Wheat By-products. 



In the production of "wheat flour " the wheat grain 

 is divided during the milling process as follows: 

 (a) flour ; (6) fine middlings, or seconds ; (c) coarse 

 middlings, thirds, or sharps ; (d) bran. The last three 

 are called " milling offals." 



In order to understand milling offals better, one 

 should know something of the structure of the wheat 

 grain in section. The two diagrams below (p. 67), 

 divide the grain into three parts, viz.: (i) seed coat; 

 (2) aleurone layer, in which is concentrated, to a 

 large extent, the gluten; (3) the kernel, which is a 

 mass of cells containing starch. Roughly speaking, the 

 coarser parts of the seed coat with part of the aleurone 



