162 PRINCIPLES OF FEEDING FARM ANIMALS 



especially to horses and hogs ; as broken ears, especially 

 to cattle; as shelled corn, especially to sheep; and as 

 ground corn, especially to milk cows, and to young animals 

 in general. It is also fed as fodder corn, as a forage, and as 

 silage. 



For Growing Stock. — In general corn should be used 

 in limited amounts in the feeding of growing animals as it 

 is deficient in muscle- and bone-forming constituents. For 

 such animals, it should be supplemented by concentrates 

 which are rich in protein and mineral matter and by the 

 legume hays. 



For calves and growing cattle, corn may comprise from 

 one-fourth to one-half the concentrates of the ration, the 

 remainder of the concentrates being made up of feeding- 

 stuffs containing more protein and mineral matter. If possi- 

 ble, legume hays also should be fed ^vith it. If non-legume 

 roughages are fed, the proportion of corn in the ration should 

 be decreased, and the nitrogeneous concentrates increased. 

 For young calves, corn should be ground. The ears should 

 be broken for older cattle. 



In case of foals and young horses, corn should not form 

 more than one-third of the concentrates. Oats, bran, or a 

 Uttle hnseed meal should be used with it to make up the defi- 

 ciency in protein and mineral matter. Young foals should 

 have ground corn, and older colts, ear-corn. 



Corn should be fed to growing pigs in hmited amounts, 

 supplemented by such nitrogenous feeds as tankage, mid- 

 dlings. Unseed meal, skim milk, or clover or alfalfa pasture. 

 From 50 to 90 per cent of the ration, depending upon the 

 amount of protein in the supplement used, may consist of 

 ear corn. 



