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faster and more economical gains on dry corn meal than on 

 ear corn, but the benefit from this was largely lost when it was 

 finally necessary to ship them to market on ear corn. They 

 were handled most profitably by feeding soaked shelled corn. 

 It should be borne in mind that corn soaked twelve hours gave 

 better results than that soaked twenty-four hours." 



" Hogs fed on dry ear corn required a longer time to eat 

 than those fed soaked corn or corn meal, owing to the more 

 thorough mastication of the dry ear corn. Young hogs and 

 pigs reduced the dry kernels from the ear corn to a finer state 

 of division than did the older hogs." 



" It proved useless to grind corn for hogs of any age 

 when the weather was warm enough to permit soaking. In 

 every case where grinding has shown a saving of corn, simple 

 soaking twelve hours in water has shown a still greater saving." 



Trials Differ. While not quite the same as the findings of 

 the Wisconsin Experiment Station, the Iowa results are some- 

 what similar to those of Wisconsin, and they bring out a very 

 interesting and important point regarding young animals. The 

 fact that young hogs masticate their feed more thoroughly 

 than older ones helps to explain why they made better use of 

 whole corn than did the older hogs, and also affords a reason 

 for the fact that young hogs almost invariably make cheaper 

 gains than older ones. 



Trial in Maryland. The Maryland Experiment Station 

 (Bulletin 150) reports a test of shelled corn and ground corn, 

 and reports as follows : " It appears that in this experiment 

 there was little difference in economy between shelled corn and 

 corn meal, but this small difference is in favor of corn meal." 



Other experiment stations, including Alabama, Maine, 



New York, Ohio, West Virginia, Kentucky, and Missouri, 



have conducted tests in connection with this problem. Out of 



eleven trials at these stations, where the total feed consumed 



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