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the corn lot, in the same length of time, which means economy in 

 the labor of feeding, if it is desired to put the hogs on the market at 

 a given weight. Wheat is a first-class feed for growing shoats, and 

 whenever it may be secured at the price of corn it should be used in 

 preference to corn. (Wyo. B. 74.) In these experiments, wheat 

 seems to have given the best results as a fattening food. Results also 

 indicate that a bushel of wheat properly fed to reasonable well bred 

 hogs, should produce approximately thirteen and one-half pounds of 

 live pork. (Or. B. 80.) Wheat will put on as many pounds of gain 

 on hogs as an equal weight of corn. The fat has a dingy color and 

 the pork shrinks excessively in cooking. Wheat fed hogs should be 

 fed barley or peas the last 60 to 75 days of fattening. This will give 

 the proper color, flavor, and firmness to the meat. (Colo. Cir. 2.) 



Wheat Middlings. It is worthy of note that the low protein 

 content of wheat middlings, requiring as it does that it be fed in 

 large proportion with corn in case it is used to supplement the latter 

 feed, is a point of great importance in this connection. The feeding 

 of corn and wheat middlings, half and half, as is necessary for most 

 economical results w r ith this supplement, occasions a cash outlay and 

 an amount of hauling of feed from town that is quite out of the 

 question in a great many local situations. (Mo. B. 67.) 



Wheat Shorts and Middlings are especially good feed for suck- 

 ling sows and young pigs, and for fattening purposes are worth about 

 8 per cent, more than an equal weight of corn. (Colo. B. 146.) 

 Wheat middlings and germ oil meal are neither so palatable, nor so 

 efficient, nor so profitable, as supplements to corn in pork production 

 as are tankage and linseed oil meal. (0. B. 213.) The lot which 

 received corn and middlings, equal parts of each by weight, made 

 fair gains and at a not exceedingly heavy expenditure of feed. The 

 amount of feed consumed was much lower than for the corn and 

 skim milk lot or the corn and tankage lot, and the amount of feed 

 required for a given gain was relatively large. The relatively low 

 consumption of corn is especially striking. (O. B. 209.) It is 

 found that each 100 pounds of pork made cost $9.80 when corn was 

 used exclusively, and when middlings were used along with the corn 

 100 pounds was made for $6.01, which was a saving of $3.79 a 100 

 pounds made as a result of introducing some middlings into the ra- 

 tion. With hogs selling at 5 cents a pound, and middlings at $30 a 

 ton, when corn alone was used only 35.7 cents were realized upon 

 each bushel fed, but when the corn was fed in conjunction with mid- 

 dlings 41.2 cents were realized for each bushel. In many places in 

 the South hogs have been selling for 6 cents a pound, in which case, 

 when corn was fed alone 42.8 cents would be secured for each bushel, 

 but when fed with the middlings the corn would realize, through the 

 hogs, 77.3 cents a bushel. As a result of using middlings the farmer 

 can secure more for his corn than if he had not done so. Still, profits 

 can not be made as a rule upon hogs when they are fed nothing but 

 corn and middlings; that is, when corn is quoted at 70 cents a 

 bushel and middlings at $30 a ton and hogs sell at 5 cents a pound 

 live weight. Some other feed or feeds must be secured to go along 



