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These figures indicate that one could afford to pay these 

 prices rather than feed corn alone. Owing to the fact, 

 however, that other protein supplements are available on 

 the market, the real money value of shorts or middlings 

 is dependent on the prices of the feeds with which they 

 must compete. 



Shorts or middlings versus skim-milk or buttermilk. 



At four experiment stations, feeding trials have been 

 conducted in which rations of corn and shorts or middlings 

 were compared with those of corn and skim-milk or 

 buttermilk for fattening pigs in the dry lot. In each 

 trial the corn was fed as a meal and in the form of a slop. 

 The summarized results from these experiments are 

 shown in Table CXVIII. 



TABLE CXVIII. SUMMARY : WHEAT SHORTS OR MIDDLINGS 

 VERSUS SKIM-MILK OR BUTTERMILK (Av. 4 Exps.) x 



In each case the milk ration proved the more palatable 

 and productive of rapid gains. The pigs receiving skim- 

 milk or buttermilk gained daily .6 of a pound faster and 



1 Ohio Exp. Sta. Bull. 209 ; Mo. Exp. Sta. Bull. 79 ; Pa. Exp. 

 Sta. Bull. 9 ; Ind. Exp. Sta. Bull. 137. 



