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cam proved inferior to uncooked, wrote: "The figures given 

 above need but little comment. They show as conclusively as. 

 figures can show anything that the cooked corn was less useful 

 than the raw grain. . . . Such an entire unanimity of results 

 can only be explained upon the theory that the cooking was an 

 injurious process so far as its use for food for fattening animals is 

 concerned." 



Brown, of the Ontario Agricultural College, ' conducted several 

 trials with cooked and uncooked peas and corn and gives his con- 

 clusions as follows: " I am not at present prepared to say defi- 

 nitely what other kinds of food may do, raw or cooked, with pigs 

 or other domestic animals, or how the other animals will thrive 

 with peas or corn, raw or boiled, but I now assert, on the strongest 

 possible grounds, .... that for fast and cheap production 

 of pork raw peas are fifty per cent, better than cooked peas or 

 Indian corn in any sliape." 



The trustees of the Maine College,' summing up the results 

 obtained at that institution of nine years' continuous feeding of 

 cooked and uncooked corn meal to pigs, wrote: "The results 

 have in every case pointed to the superior value of uncooked 

 meal for the production of pork." 



'So one can review the accumulation of experimental data from 

 our Stations, all substantially adverse to cooking feed for swine, 

 without being convinced that the matter is practically settled so 

 far as most feeding stuffs are concerned. A few feeds appear to 

 require the modifying influence of heat and moisture to render 

 them palatable and digestible with stock. Potatoes cannot be 

 successfully fed to swine in any quantity unless they are first 

 cooked, and roots are more palatable if cooked and meal is added 

 to the mass. The writer has shown that pigeon-grass seed must 

 be cooked to be satisfactorily consiuned by swine. This treat- 

 ment is doubtless made necessary by the thick, woody seed-coats 

 of this grain. 



Feeders should not confuse the effects of cooked feeds upon farm 

 stock with the advantages of sujpplying them with warm feed in 

 palatable form. To the assertion that stockmen who cook feed 



1 Kept. 1876. » Rept. Me. State Col., 1878. 



