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Straight corn feeding does not support normal growth, nor pro- 

 duce rapid gains ; the rations in which liberal amounts of protein were 

 fed, produced marketable hogs in much less time than did corn alone. 

 The hogs ate very much more of the supplemented rations and made 

 larger and cheaper gains. The smaller the proportion in which a 

 palatable supplement is fed, the greater is the amount of corn which 

 each pound of supplement saves ; but the larger the proportion of a 

 palatable supplement fed, until a balanced ration is reached, the 

 lower is the cost of making pork in the dry-lot, both in pounds of 

 grain, and, at usual prices of grain feeds, also in dollars and cents. 

 (Mo. B. 65.) 



In every experiment conducted at the Station during the past 

 five years there has been an increase in the rate of gain, a decrease 

 in the cost of gain, a higher finish and a greater profit, resulting from 

 the use of a supplement in connection with shelled corn or corn meal, 

 as compared with the same feeds without supplements in fattening 

 hogs. (Ind. B. 137.) 



Either home grown or commercial supplemental feeds may be 

 used in connection with corn to good advantage, and feeders should 

 be ready to use whichever will be most profitable. It will often pay 

 to exchange farm grown feeds for commercial feeds. On the other 

 hand, it is often true that the use of feeds grown on the farm will 

 prove more profitable than the use of commercial feeds. (O. B. 209.) 



As for the corn products, gluten meal, gluten feed and germ 

 oilmeal our experience with them does not commend them especially 

 to us as supplements to corn for hogs, and cottonseed meal as here fed 

 is certainly not in the same class as to usefulness with other foodstuffs 

 which are known not to be dangerous. (Mo. B. 67.) 



Wheat. Tests made at many experiment stations with wheat 

 show that pound for pound, it is equal to corn for making gains on 

 fattening hogs. It was found at the Colorado Experiment Station, 

 that a mixture of equal weights of wheat and barley was worth 17 per 

 cent more than corn for fattening hogs. (Colo. B. 146.) Wheat, as a 

 basis, has proved the most effective grain both in rapidity and econ- 

 omy of gain. The hogs so fed required less grain for each pound of 

 gain than either the corn or barley rations. This is a point of very 

 great importance to the Utah feeder where wheat is the largest and 

 cheapest grain crop. (Utah B. 94.) 



Many ranchmen think corn is necessary to pork production. 

 Our experiment proves by local demonstration what is acknowledged 

 in many other communities, namely: that wheat will put more meat 

 on growing hogs than corn. The wheat fed was shrunken by frost. 

 The hogs averaged 84 and 82 pounds per head at the beginning of 

 the experiment, and in eleven weeks' feeding the wheat-fed hogs 

 averaged 40 pounds per head heavier than the corn-fed hogs, weigh- 

 ing on the average nearly 200 pounds each. (Wyp. 15th A. R.) 



Ground wheat sometimes makes a more economical ration than 

 ground corn. (Utah B. 67.) With corn and wheat at the .-:UIK- 

 price, corn costs about one-ninth more for a given increase in weight. 

 The wheat lot ate much more feed and made a half more gain than 



