Preparation of Feeds 



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Soaking and grinding corn. 



Kennedy and Robbins 1 of the Iowa Experiment Station 

 conducted a total of seven experiments in each of which 

 four groups of pigs were fed on the following rations, 

 dry ear-corn, soaked shelled corn, dry corn-meal (fed dry), 

 and soaked corn-meal. The experiments were run during 

 the summer and fall. Corn grown the preceding year 

 was used, except in four of the trials when new corn was 

 fed in the last part of the trials for an average period of 

 48 days. In four of the experiments the pigs had access 

 to blue-grass and timothy lots, while in the other three 

 they were confined to dry lots. In all cases except one, 

 a small quantity of meat-meal was fed as a supplement. 

 The results are averaged in Table CLXL 



TABLE CLXI. GRINDING VERSUS OTHER METHODS OF PRE- 

 PARING CORN FOR FATTENING PIGS 



(Av. 7 Exps.) 



In these experiments, the unground corn gave better 

 results than the shelled corn fed in the Wisconsin trials. 

 Although the gains were not so rapid, less feed was required 



i Bull. 106. 2 Soaked 12 or 24 hours. 



J Calculated on the shelled-corn basis. 



