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the rate of gain being practically the same. Grinding 

 the corn and feeding it wet had the effect of increasing 

 the rate of gain 10 per cent over ear or shelled corn and 

 of reducing by 4.7 per cent the amount of feed required 

 for a unit of gain. 



General average results from grinding. 



Summarizing the results from all the Iowa and Indiana 

 experiments in which dry ear-corn was compared with 

 corn-meal fed wet or after soaking, the results appear in 

 Table CLXIII. 



TABLE CLXIII. SUMMARY : EAR-CORN VERSUS GROUND 

 CORN FOR FATTENING PIGS 



(Av. 15 Exps.) 



These results show that the rate of gain was increased 

 9.5 per cent by grinding and feeding the corn either wet 

 or soaked. The amount of the ration required to pro- 

 duce a unit of gain, however, was 9.1 per cent less for 

 ear than for ground corn. 



If the average results of the eighteen trials at the Wis- 

 consin Station, Table CLX, are included with these 

 averages, it is found that grinding effected a saving of 

 3.09 per cent when compared with shelled corn or corn fed 

 on the ear. These results, then, based on the averages 



