VARIOUS GRAINS, MEALS, AND BY-PRODUCTS 167 
under exceptional circumstances that it can be counted among 
feeds for swine. 
The Wyoming Station secured better gains for feed con- 
sumed from wheat than from corn in each of two tests, reported 
in Bulletin 74. 
Frosted Wheat.—In some years, considerable of this 
product is placed upon the market. In the northern belt, wheat 
may be sufficiently injured by frost to render it unfit for 
milling, and yet be practically equal to sound wheat for feeding 
purposes. Frozen wheat varies much in character, depending 
on the degree of maturity reached by the grain before frost. 
Tn his evidence before the Committee on Agriculture, J. H. 
Grisdale, of the Central Experimental Farm, Canada, gives 
details of swine feeding experiments with frozen wheat, fed 
alone and combined. This table brings out the main points: 
Average weight Average Pounds meal 
Character of Ration. of pigs at daily per 100 pounds 
commencement gain. gain. 
Ibs. lbs. Ibs. 
Lot 1. No. 1 frozen wheat 2 
parts, shorts 1 part......... 99.1 .76 390 
Lot 2. No. 1 frozen wheat 2 
parts, corn 1 part.......... 76. 17 370 
Lot 3. No. 2 frozen wheat 2 
parts, corn 1 part........... 118.2 1.03 390 
Lot 4. No. 2 frozen wheat only 140 1.23 360 
Lot 5. No.2 frozen wheat only 85 71 380 
Lot 6. No. 2 frozen wheat 2 
parts, barley 1 part. . : 104.1 81 410 
Lot 7. No. 1 frozen wheat 2 
parts, oatsI part............ 112.1 1.02 390 
Lot 8. No. 1 frozen wheat 2 
parts, oats 1 part........... 74.2 .66 390 
Lot 9. No. 2 frozen wheat with 
3 lbs. skim-milk daily per pig 99. .86 340 
Lot 10. No. 1 frozen wheat only 150.4 94 410 
Lot 11. No. 1 frozen wheat only 96.3 79 390 
Lot 12. Equal parts No. 1 froz- 
en wheat, No. 2 frozen wheat, 
and Corn. ........+056- aca, 124.8 94 470 
