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weighed nearly 50 pounds heavier at the close of the 

 experiments. 



The amount of feed required to produce 100 pounds of 

 gain shows 208.38 pounds of shorts or middlings to have 

 the value of 15.28 pounds of corn and 536.91 of skim- 

 milk or buttermilk. This would result in giving to shorts 

 or middlings the values shown in Table CXIX. 



TABLE CXIX. VALUE OF WHEAT SHORTS OR MIDDLINGS 

 AS AFFECTED BY THE PRICE OF CORN AND SKIM-MILK OR 

 BUTTERMILK 



Summary. 



When measured solely by the results of these experi- 

 ments, shorts or middlings did not prove as efficient 

 for balancing corn as did skim-milk, tankage, or linseed- 

 oil meal. There was more variation in the showing 

 by this ration in the different experiments, also, than 

 was true of the other rations. This was probably be- 

 cause the quality of shorts or middlings varies consider- 

 ably from time to time, especially that produced by mills 

 in different sections. The tendency, also, to use the term 

 shorts or middlings to designate any of these products 

 ranging in quality from bran or shipstuff on the one side 

 to flour middlings or red-dog flour on the other, may have 

 been responsible for the excellent showing of this ration in 

 some of these experiments and its very ordinary showing 



