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100 pounds of gain with the corn than with the hominy 

 ration. In every instance but one, also, the rate of gain 

 was faster on the corn ration. On the average, 100 

 pounds of the corn was equivalent to 105 pounds of the 

 hominy ration. A slightly smaller proportion of supple- 

 ment was eaten, however, by the pigs receiving the 

 hominy. The rate of gain was, on the average, practi- 

 cally 8 per cent faster on the corn ration. 



A modification of the methods of manufacturing 

 hominy feed is probably responsible for the failure of 

 this product to give as good results in these recent experi- 

 ments as it did in those reported in Table CXLI. The 

 analyses of the hominy used in the Indiana trials showed 

 that the feed contained more fat and less fiber than that 

 in the 1917 and 1918 experiments. The germ which 

 formerly went into the hominy entire is now usually 

 pressed for its oil and the remaining product either put 

 back with the other by-products or sold alone as corn 

 germ meal. 



Corn feed meal. 



The Association of Feed Control Officials of the United 

 States defines this product as follows : " Corn Feed Meal 

 is the by-product obtained in the manufacture of cracked 

 corn, with or without aspiration products added to the 

 siftings, and is the by-product obtained in the manu- 

 facture of table meal from the whole grain by the non- 

 degerminating process." This is a relatively new feed and 

 the processes in its manufacture are probably not uniform. 



Analyses of this feed indicate that it is similar to corn 

 in composition, but a little richer in protein and fiber 

 with a little less of nitrogen-free-extract. Like hominy, 

 it must be fed with a protein supplement for good results. 



