7 io MAIZE 



CHAP. The Kansas Station {Bull. 34 and 60) tested the value 



XIV - of maize meal as compared with ear maize for feeding steers. 

 The steers fed ear maize gained somewhat more than those 

 fed maize meal, but they required 6 per cent more grain. 



Georgeson observes that "this is not a very favourable 

 showing for maize meal, and I confess the result is contrary 

 to my expectations. A considerable percentage of the whole 

 maize passes through the animal undigested, and it would 

 seem that the digestive juices could act to better advantage 

 on the pure maize meal than on the partially masticated grains 

 of maize, and extract more nourishment from it, but apparently 

 this is not the case." 



Referring to the same experiment Henry (1) notes that : — 

 " In the second trial there was a saving of 35 per cent of 

 the maize by grinding, which may be regarded as the extreme 

 saving possible in such feeding. This result is the largest 

 saving of grain by grinding yet reported by any of the Stations 

 so far as the writer is able to learn " {Henry, 1). 



667. Maize Meal for Pigs. — Henry (1) made a careful test 

 with seventy pigs to determine the relative value of whole 

 maize and maize meal ; the maize used was a yellow dent 

 containing about 12 per cent moisture. In three out of four 

 trials the meal was more economical than whole grain : a 

 saving of 8 per cent in weight fed was effected by grinding. 

 Tests conducted at the Kentucky, Ohio, and Missouri Stations, 

 with only two, three, and four pigs in each lot (twenty-six in 

 all) showed a saving of only 2 per cent. But the experiments 

 of several Stations show that maize meal is of practically equal 

 value with wheat meal for feeding pigs. Henry's own experi- 

 ments show that a mixture of wheat meal and maize meal is 

 superior to wheat meal alone for feeding pigs, resulting in a 

 saving of 3 per cent in weight of material fed. He points out 

 that while larger returns can be secured from maize meal than 

 from whole grain, it has several disadvantages in practical use, 

 though towards the close of the fattening period it is especially 

 useful in giving more finish. 



668. Maize Meal for Lambs. — Experiments at the Wiscon- 

 sin Station (2) show that maize meal can be used satisfactorily 

 for fattening lambs ; it proved a more economical food alone 

 than in combination with oats or peas, before weaning, and of 



