Value of Various Feeding Stuffs for Swine. 



519 



The corn-and-cob meal used was twice ground in order to reduce 

 it to proper fineness. The table shows that all the labor and ex- 

 pense required in grinding ear corn to corn-and-cob meal was more 

 than lost. This seems reasonable in the case of the pig, which has 

 a digestive tract that can at best but poorly utilize a hard, fibrous 

 material such as the corn cob, even after it is ground. Where the 

 pig's food is limited in quantity the cob particles may be useful 

 in distending the digestive tract. Even in such cases the feeder 

 should supply woody matter of better character, such as clover and 

 alfalfa hay furnish. With the other farm animals, where the rough- 

 age supply is costly or scant, corn-and-cob meal may possibly be of 

 advantage at times, as pointed out elsewhere. (156-7, 523) 



846. Gluten meal. — At the Cornell Station^ Clinton compared 

 gluten meal and skim milk with corn meal and skim milk, feeding 2 

 lots, each of 8 pigs averaging 70 lbs., for 50 days with the results 

 shown below: 



Gluten meal compared with corn meal. 



Gluten meal gave the poorer results with skim milk, probably be- 

 cause it is excessively rich in protein and poor in carbohydrates, so 

 valuable in pork production. At the same Station^ a mixture of 1 

 part gluten meal and 4 parts corn meal proved 7 per ct. more val- 

 uable than wheat meal when both were fed with skim milk. Gris- 

 dale of the Ottawa Experimental Farms-' states that gluten meal 

 seems unpalatable and produces soft bacon. (158) 



847. Hominy feed. — At the Massachusetts (Hatch) Station* Lind- 

 sey found hominy meal or hominy feed as valuable, pound for pound, 

 as corn meal for fattening pigs when both feeds were fed in combi- 

 nation with skim milk. (159) 



848. Wheat. — About the year 1893, when the price of wheat ruled 

 excessively low, several stations compared the value of wheat with 



^ Bui. 199. 



Bui. 89. 



Bui. 51. 



* Rpt. 1899. 



