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The droppings from fattening cattle is a feed of impor- 

 tance in some cattle-feeding sections. Frequently near 

 large cities garbage is fed extensively to fattening swine. 



Concentrated commercial feeding stuffs. — For several 

 reasons commercial concentrated feedstuffs for swine 

 have not come into very general use. They arc subject 

 to considerable adulteration with materials having low 

 feeding value. Some common adulterants or fillers arc 

 chaff, oat hulls, peanut hulls, coffee hulls, screenings, 

 corn cob, corn bran, oat dust, cottonseed hulls and mill 

 sweepings. Most states provide statutes to protect the 

 consumer from adulteration of feeds, and require the 

 manufacturer to guarantee and keep the standard of their 

 products up to certain specifications. Most of our com- 

 mercial feedstuffs, such as bean culls, middlings, cotton- 

 seed meal, linseed meal, shorts, tankage, meat meal, etc., 

 are the by-products of other industries. These kinds of 

 feedstuffs have their places, but as a rule they should 

 only be used in a supplemental way. 



Condimental feeds. — For all practical purposes con- 

 dimental feeds have but little value, and as a general 

 proposition are not to be recommended. Careful experi- 

 ments have shown that swine utilize no more, if as much, 

 of their feed when condiments are added. Tonics and 

 alteratives are generally present in these feeds, but aside 

 from these the feed value is negligible. Well-known 

 materials are used in the compounding of these proprie- 

 tary articles, and where such medicines are called for 

 the farmer can make for himself simple tonic mixtures. 

 He can do this a great deal cheaper than he can purchase 

 them. 



