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years, Sanborn of the Missouri Station^ held that good wheat mid- 

 dlings were worth 8 per ct. more than corn meal when each is fed 

 alone. In the above trial the mixture of corn meal and wheat mid- 

 dlings proved 16 per ct. superior to wheat middlings alone, and 18 

 per ct. superior to corn meal alone. Wheat middlings should never 

 be fed alone to pigs, but always in combination with corn or other 

 starchy feeds, and only the best grades should be used. (166) 



851. Wheat shorts. — In a 60-day trial at the New Hampshire Sta- 

 tion^ Shaw compared wheat shorts with corn meal as a feed for 

 47-lb. pigs, obtaining the results shown below: 



In this trial the wheat shorts proved unsatisfactory for young pigs 

 whether fed alone or with skim milk. They were doubtless ground- 

 over bran with mill dust and sweepings added, judging by the re- 

 sults. Such feed has little value compared with cost and should be 

 avoided by the pig feeder. (166) 



852. Wheat bran.— At the ]\raine Station^ Jordan fed 200-lb. pigs 

 either wheat bran and skim milk or wheat middlings and skim milk 

 for 72 days and found that: 



413 lbs. wheat middlings and 1,126 lbs. skim milk made 110 lbs. gain 

 413 lbs. wheat bran and 1,126 lbs. skim milk made 54 lbs. gain 



Bui. 14. 



= Bui. 113. 



' Rpt. 1889. 



