FEEDING VALUE OF BY-PRODUCTS OF CORN 



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$10.20; corn, gluten meal, and wheat straw for $9.34; corn, oil meal, 

 and wheat straw for $11.02. 



PREPARING CORN FOR STOCK.— Corn Meal. The grinding 

 of corn would theoretically increase its digestibility and therefore en- 

 hance its feeding value. This is due to the greater accessibility of the 

 digestive juices to the finer particles of the ground corn, and to the 

 more complete mixing of the meal with the other feeds eaten, espe- 

 cially roughage. 



A summary of tests at the Kentucky, Missouri, and Ohio Sta- 

 tions, places the saving of corn due to grinding at 7 per cent. Wis- 

 consin proved a saving of 8 per cent. It is something of a question 

 whether even such a saving warrants grinding for hogs. 



Although a saving of 8 per cent in the amount of corn fed 

 was made at the Kansas Station in producing beef. Smith* concludes 

 that this is insufficient to pay for the cost of grinding and the labor 

 attached thereto. 



VALUE OF CORN MEAL AS A FOOD AS COMPARED WITH OTHER FOODS** 



Each of these foods contains the same amount of nutritive material as one pound 

 of corn meal valued -at 3 cents per pound. 



JCind of Food 



Corn Meal 



Dried Beans f ■ 



Bread, White 



Potatoes 



Prunes . . . . , 



Cheese 



Milk 



Walnuts 



Codfish 



Cabbage 



Meat, round steak 



Eggs 



Oranges 



Cost 



3c per lb. 

 6.5c per lb. 



10c loaf 

 $1.00 per bu. 



15c per lb. 



22c per lb. 



8c per qt. 



25c per lb. 



7c per lb. 

 2.5c per lb 



20c per lb. 

 35c per doz. 

 40c per doz. 



App. No. 



or 

 Measure 



17 



?i qt. 



'24 



' 25 

 20 



Approximate 

 Weight 



Lbs. 

 1 

 1 

 1 

 5 



5 

 1 

 S 



13 

 1 

 1 



10 



I Ozs. 



1 

 6 

 7 

 14 

 14 

 5 

 5 



14 



14 



8 



15 



Total 

 Cost 

 Cents 



3 

 7 

 10 

 10 

 15 

 19 

 20 

 33 

 35 

 35 

 37 

 56 

 66 



NOTE — The value of corn meal as a food has not been fully appreciated. It is 

 bound to come into more common use. 



'Profitable Cattle Feeding, H. B. Smith, Page 188. 



••Compiled from data taken from estimate prepared by the Iowa Dairy and Food Commission. 



