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em stations pigs fed ground barley and wheat middings made slightly 

 smaller gains than others fed ground corn and middlings, and re- 

 quired 10 per ct. more feed for 100 lbs. gain. 



Wheat is slightly superior to corn for fattening pigs 3 but when of 

 good quality it is usually too expensive to be fed to stock. Grain 



Fig. 102. — Fattening Pigs Hogging Down Corn 



Pigs hogging down corn in which rape or other supplemental crops have been 

 sown make larger and cheaper gains than those fed ear corn in a dry lot. ( From 

 Evvard, Iowa Station.) 



which is damaged in quality and is not suited for milling may be 

 worth nearly as much as sound grain for pig feeding. 



Bye meal ranks a little below corn meal and is about equal to barley 

 meal as a feed for pigs. 



Oats are too bulky to serve as the only grain for fattening pigs and 

 are usually costly compared with other cereals. In trials by the 

 senior author * one-third oats and two-thirds corn gave better results 

 than two-thirds oats and one-third corn. Toward the close of the 

 fattening period but little oats should be fed. For brood sows oats 

 are excellent, and for little pigs nothing excels ground oats with the 

 hulls sifted out. 



Emmer is also too bulky to give the best results when fed as the 



s Weaver, Mo. Bui. 136; Eastwood, Ohio Bui. 268. 

 ♦ Wis. Rpt. 1889. 



