VARIOUS GRAINS, MEALS, AND BY-PRODUCTS 171 
Ground wheat showed an advantage of only about 814, per cent 
over ground buckwheat, and the wheat mixture an advantage 
of 61% per cent over the buckwheat mixture. 
Emmer.—This grain is commonly known as “spelt” or 
“speltz.” Genuine spelt is a distinct plant, possessing general 
characters similar to emmer, but is a smaller yielder and 
possesses about ten per cent more hull than emmer. 
The South Dakota Station reports one experiment with 
emmer, under the name of “ speltz.”” One lot of hogs was 
fed whole emmer, one ground emmer, and one emmer and 
corn. Whole emmer required 771 pounds of feed for 100 
pounds of gain, ground emmer 826 pounds, and emmer and 
corn 529 pounds. It will be seen that a marked improve- 
ment was effected when corn was added to the emmer. Appar- 
ently emmer has too much hull or husk (about 21 per cent) 
to make a first-class hog feed. Its rational use would be for 
mixing with concentrated, heavy meals to give more bulk to 
the ration. 
Millet Seed—The South Dakota Station (Bulletin $3) 
reports a comparison of millet seed with barley and wheat. 
The authors of the bulletin state that millet seed can be 
grown profitably as a fattening ration for swine, but it does 
not furnish as good a ration as barley or wheat. It is also 
stated that it required one-fifth more millet than it did barley 
meal, and a trifle more barley meal than it did wheat to 
make a pound of gain, and that a bushel of 56 pounds of 
millet seed is equal to a bushel of 48 pounds of barley for 
hog feed. Millet meal produced a softer quality of fat than 
did either barley or wheat meal. 
Beans.—Beans are best thoroughly cooked before they are 
fed to swine. Bulletin 243 of the Michigan Experiment 
Station reports results from feeding cull beans to growing pigs 
