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Feeds and Feeding. 



860. Millet.— Wilson and Skinner of the South Dakota Station^ 

 fed "hog" millet {Panicum Miliaceum) meal against barley and 

 wheat meal to lots of 2 pigs each for 84 days, with the results 

 shown in the table: 



Millet meal compared with wheat and harley meal. 



For the first 8 weeks the pigs fed millet meal gave substantially 

 as good returns as those fed barley meal, but during the next 4 

 weeks they made poorer gains. Combining both periods, it re- 

 quired about 20 per ct. more millet than barley to produce a given 

 gain. Millet meal should never be fed alone, but always in com- 

 bination with some other grain, such as corn or barley, or, better, 

 with some protein-rich concentrate, such as soybeans, linseed meal, 

 heavy wheat middlings, alfalfa hay, etc. It is not so useful for 

 fattening hogs in cold weather as wheat or barley, and produces a 

 softer pork than those grains. (185) 



861. Sorghum seed. — Erf and Kinzer of the Kansas Station^ found 

 a mixture of 4 parts sorghum-seed meal and 1 part soybean meal 

 almost equal to corn meal alone as a feed for pigs, but 33 per ct. 

 poorer than a mixture of 4 parts kafir meal and 1 part soybean meal. 

 Heavy, clean sorghum seed should rank but little below kafir or 

 milo in feeding value. (181) 



862. Dried distillers' grains. — May of the Kentucky Station^ 

 found that pigs did not relish dried distillers' grains and would 

 not eat them if they could get corn. Fed with an equal amount of 

 corn the grains produced average daily gains of only 0.14 lb. When 

 1 part distillers' grains and 4 parts of corn was fed the pigs made 

 larger gains than on corn alone. Distillers' grains should not form 

 over 20 per ct. of the ration when fed with corn. The low value of 

 this feed when much of it is fed is due, as is the case with bran, to 

 the large amount of fiber contained. (317) 



863. Rice by-products. — At the Massachusetts (Hatch) Station* 

 Lindsey divided a litter of six 10-weeks-old pigs into 2 lots and fed 



Bui. 83. 



Bui. 136. 



Bui. 101. 



Rpt. 1897. 



