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may be so fed in due admixture with considerable benefit. 

 They are less satisfactory as a diluent of the heavier kinds 

 of meal and when fed, the quantity given is less than in the 

 case of bran. The results from feeding middlings and corn 

 to cows has proved quite satisfactory, the quantity re- 

 quired being about 25 per cent less than when feeding bran. 

 Middlings are preeminently adapted for feeding to swine. 

 No kind of meal is better for swine of all ages when due re- 

 gard is had to the quantity fed. When the prices admit of 

 such feeding, they may be made the sole meal ration for 

 pigs before weaning; a large proportion of the same dur- 

 ing the growing period, and 50 to 75 per cent of the ration 

 of brood sows suckling their young. Even when pigs are 

 being fattened they are sometimes fed so as to form from 

 25 to 50 per cent of the ration. Shorts and corn have been 

 found to make increase about 25 per cent greater than corn 

 alone and considerably greater than shorts alone. When 

 fed alone during the finishing period, they produce pork 

 somewhat soft. Middlings and skim milk are two of the 

 standard foods in areas where bacon pork of prime quality 

 is produced. Because of the high adaptation of middlings 

 to pork production, under some conditions, it is in order to 

 purchase them in large quantities for feeding swine. When 

 fed to horses, unless duly admixed with other concentrates, 

 it is said that they tend to induce colic. 



Red dog flour is rich in protein and fat. It contains 

 much of the germs of the wheat and because of its compo- 

 sition and fineness is preeminently adapted for feeding to 

 growing swine. In limited quantities it has also been found 

 quite useful for feeding to horses that are worked hard and 

 to milch cows. 



Frosted wheat has much the same feeding qualities as 

 matured wheat, unless the freezing takes place several days 

 before the wheat is matured, and is probably quite as useful 

 pound for pound for feeding purposes. The same is true 

 of shrunken wheat. It is even richer in protein than wheat 

 not shrunken, and because of this and of the higher bran 



