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are too bulky to give satisfactory results when fed to 

 growing pigs and fattening shotes. A hundred pounds 

 of oats contain 15.3 pounds less of digestible nutrients 

 than the same amount of corn. Corn contains 2 per 

 cent of woody fiber, while oats contain 10.9 per cent. 

 This is the principal reason why oats are less digestible 

 than corn and too bulky for pigs fed for rapid gains. 



Oats versus corn. 



Two experiments by Eastwood 1 at the Ohio Experi- 

 ment Station furnish a very reliable test for contrasting 

 the results from feeding corn and oats to growing pigs. 

 The averaged figures are stated in Table CXXXV. 



TABLE CXXXV. OATS VERSUS CORN 

 (Av. 2 Exps.) 



In these experiments the corn-fed pigs gained .59 pound 

 daily faster than the oat-fed animals. The amount of 

 feed required to produce 100 pounds of gain showed 

 100 pounds of corn equal to 125 pounds of oats. In 

 addition, a smaller quantity of tankage was eaten for a 

 unit of gain by those fed corn. 



Experiments by Henry 2 at the Wisconsin Experiment 

 1 Bull. 268. 2 Wis. An. Rpt., 1889. 



