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should be satisfactory when the milk supply from the dams 

 is also liberal. For weaned lambs and mature sheep that 

 are being fattened, it may be fed unground as the sole grain 

 ration for short periods of feeding, the fodder being legu- 

 minous, but when from 10 to 25 per cent of the grain is a 

 protein food, the results are usually more satisfactory. For 

 breeding ewes, the corn should not be more than 50 per cent 

 of the concentrate fed, and usually not more than 25 per 

 cent. 



For swine that are being fattened, corn alone answers 

 well. It is about as profitable fed as shelled or in the cob, 

 as in the form of meal. If so hard as to injure the mouths 

 of the animals, it should be soaked for 18 to 24 hours. For 

 brood sows, it may profitably form 33 to 50 per cent of the 

 grain fed, the other meal having more of protein in it. In 

 such instances, it is fed as meal, after having been soaked, 

 and is thus prepared also for unweaned pigs. To these it 

 should seldom form more than 33 per cent of the meal, the 

 other portion being preferably wheat middlings. To grow- 

 ing pigs on clover or alfalfa pasture, it may furnish 50 to 

 loo per cent of the grain fed. 



For horses, corn is not so good a food as oats, when 

 fed as the sole food. It is not so good for building muscu- 

 lar tissue or in making bone in young horses, or in sustain- 

 ing muscular energy in horses at work. It fattens the ani- 

 mals more than oats, as one result of which they sweat more 

 readily, and yet corn may be fed as a considerable propor- 

 tion of the grain ration, especially to horses at work, with 

 both economy and profit. To these it may be fed so as to 

 form from 25 to 50 per cent of the grain, according to the 

 season and to the protein in the other food. Oats go well 

 with corn. A little wheat bran added to corn meal is a ma- 

 terial aid to the digesting of corn. Corn and cob meal is 

 better than corn meal fed without admixture. Corn should 

 seldom form more than 33 per cent of the grain food fed to 



