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faster and amore cconomical 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 car corn. They 
were handled most protitably by fecding 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 car 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.” 
“Tt 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 voung 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, Obio, 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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