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to be more valuable as a hog feed than the corn meal. At the Mas- 

 sachusetts Station the rice meal and the corn meal proved to be prac- 

 tically equal in feeding value, but the rice meal was the cheaper 

 feed. (F. B. 411.) 



Rice bran was much cheaper than corn and yielded a larger 

 gain. The pork produced by it was of an inferior quality to that pro- 

 duced by corn. The shrinkage from the dressed weight hot to the 

 dressed weight chilled was much greater and the per cent of dressed 

 carcass much less. Rice bran should be used more extensively in pork 

 production when corn is so much higher in price, and, for the best 

 results, should be fed in connection with a feed rich in protein. - 

 (Tex. B. 131.) 



Millet. Seed of millet can be grown profitably as a fattening 

 ration for swine. It does not furnish as good a ration as either bar- 

 ley or wheat for swine. The carcasses of the lot fed on millet were 

 clothed with pure white fat of superior quality as compared with the 

 fat of those fattened on barley or wheat. It required one-fifth more 

 millet than it did barley meal and a trifle more barley meal than it 

 did wheat to make a pound of gain. A bushel of 56 pounds of millet 

 is equal to a bushel of 48 pounds of barley for hog feed. Millet meal 

 produced a softer quality of fat than did either barley or wheat meal. 

 Millet meal was found not to be so good for a fattening ration as bar- 

 ley meal or wheat meal during extremely cold weather. (S. D. 

 B. 83.) 



Beans. From many inquiries and reports received from the 

 farmers of the state it was known that many were using beans alone 

 for fattening swine. Some of these told of large gains and others of 

 unsatisfactory ones. Some that had corn were even selling this and 

 buying damaged beans, feeding these exclusively, instead of making 

 a combination of the two feeds. Such feeding must necessarily be 

 accompanied with some losses of protein, and from the standpoint 

 of food economy is open to considerable criticism. However, if the 

 beans were cheap the practice might be financially allowable. When 

 any feed is cheap and a large stock of it is on hand there is a great 

 temptation to supply it too freely, and to feed it to the exclusion of 

 other feeds which experience and judgment would suggest. It would 

 appear that hogs of the weights and ages of those fed in this experi- 

 ment could reasonably be expected to make a gain of about a pound 

 per day on a ration consisting of beans only, and that the same sort 

 of hog could reasonably be expected to make a gain of about l^j 

 pounds per day if an equal amount of corn were supplied with the 

 bean ration. Further, it would appear that the gains made by the 

 bean-fed hogs would cost about $2.50 per hundred pounds and those 

 made by the beans and corn-fed hogs would cost about $3.50 per 

 hundredweight. 



Two ways of cooking are used here at the College. The one by 

 injecting live steam into a barrel containing the food to be cooked, 

 the other by the use of the ordinary feed cooker, consisting of a cal- 

 dron kettle with a castiron stove as a jacket for the same. A large 

 variety of cookers of similar sorts are upon the market. In cooking 



