Feeding Farm Animals 201 



To obtain the best results, the barley should be ground into 

 a meal (not too fine) and have the hulls screened or floated out. 

 This is best fed when made into a thick slop. Some good feeders 

 believe in letting it stand until fermentation sets up, that is, gets 

 a little sour. We prefer a sweet to a sour feed. However, hogs 

 will do well on either, provided there is no change from sour to 

 sweet. The change is the bad part. Hogs should be fed just the 

 amount that they will clean up well, and no more. A hog should 

 always be ready for his feed at feeding time. We would not feed 

 oftener than twice a day: night and morning. — Chas. Goodman. 



Sugar Beets and Silage. 



Will sugar beets keep in a silo and hozv sugar beets rank as a hog 

 feed? 



Sugar beets would probably keep all right if stored in a silo 

 just as they might if kept in any other receptacle, but it is not necessary 

 to store beets for stock-feeding in this State. They can be taken from 

 the field, or from piles made under open sheds in which the beets may 

 be put because more convenient for feeding than to take them from 

 the field in the rainy season. Beets put whole into a silo would not 

 make silage. For that purpose they would need to be reduced to a pulp, 

 but there is no object in going to the expense of that operation where 

 beets will keep so well in their natural condition and where there is 

 no hard freezing to injure them. Beet pulp silage is made from beets 

 which are put through a pulping process for the purpose of extraction 

 of the sugar and, therefore, best pulp silage is only made in connection 

 with beet-sugar factories and is a by-product thereof which is proving 

 of large value for feeding purposes. 



Feeding Value of Spelt. 



What is the food value of spelt? It is a Russian variety of wheat, 

 and yet, I am informed, it has about the same value as a stock food 

 that barley has. 



We have no analysis of spelt at hand. It is presumably like that 

 of barley, as you suggest, because the spelt has an adhering chaff 

 as barley has. This fact makes it better for feeding than wheat, not 

 in nutritive content, but because the chaff tends to distribute the 

 starchy material, making it more easily digestible; just as barley and 

 oats are better than ordinary wheat for stock feeding. 



Concentrates and Corn Stalks. 



Is it necessary to feed mulch cozvs any hay or concentrated feed in 

 addition to green corn stalks? 



It is necessary. Green corn is an excellent thing for milch cows, 

 but it is a very unbalanced ration and needs alfalfa or something else 

 to balance it up. Green corn, for example, contains only about one 

 per cent of digestible protein and 11.5 per cent of digestible carbo- 



