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hogs and chickens were never to obtain an ounce of 

 wheat bran, red dog, wheat germ, middlings, or any 

 other of the discarded by-products of our patent 

 flour industry they would go on eating just the same 

 from the superabundance of feeding stuflfs classified 

 above. 



Radical reforrri, urged by necessity, in our present 

 system of refining wheat for human consumption 

 would not affect in the slightest degree any of these 

 foods now so extensively used by the live stock in- 

 dustry of the United States. 



The quantity of feeding stuffs now produced by 

 the flour mills from bran, red dog, germ, and 

 middlings in the refinement of 750,000,000 bush- 

 els of wheat is exactly 8,100,000 tons, or less 

 than 10 per cent, of the weight of the hay crop 

 alone. 



The total savings which a reform system of wheat 

 milling would transfer from the food of cattle to the 

 food of men, women and children in the production 

 of whole meal bread amounts to less than i per cent, 

 of the total food now available for our animal indus- 

 try in the United States. 



The Geneva Experiment Station has given us the 

 analyses of hundreds of cow foods, hog foods, and 

 chicken foods which contain not one particle of 

 wheat bran, red dog, germ, or middlings. 



With farina, a pure white by-product of the pat- 

 ent flour mill, which will not support life, selling jn 

 fancy packages throughout the United States at 10 

 cents a pound, or $19.60 a barrel, while whole wheat 

 meal, which will support life, is quoted at $7.50 a 

 barrel, only to go begging among the ignorant, it is 

 high time that the plain people should be warned of 



