Other Cereal Grains for Growing Pigs 



291 



Likewise "salvage" wheat, which has been more or less 

 damaged by elevator fire, is no doubt less valuable than 

 sound wheat in direct proportion to the degree of injury 

 done. 



An experiment conducted at the Montana Experiment 

 Station by Clark 1 suggests the feeding qualities of frosted 

 as contrasted with good wheat. The wheat for both 

 lots of pigs was ground and fed without supplements, in 

 the form of a slop. The results are shown in Table 

 CXXXII. 



TABLE CXXXII. FROSTED WHEAT VERSUS SOUND WHEAT 



In this experiment, 100 pounds of sound wheat were 

 equal to 105 pounds of frosted wheat. The pigs receiv- 

 ing the sound grain also gained 9.7 per cent faster. 



RYE 



The composition of rye would suggest that its feeding 

 value for growing and fattening pigs would be equal 

 if not superior to that of corn. The results of a few 

 experimental feeding tests, however, prove rather con- 

 clusively that its value is a little less than corn. The 

 results of an experiment by H. R. Smith 2 at the Nebraska 



Bull. 89. 



Ibid., 75. 



