660 



Feeds and Feeding. 



singly. (759) Tlie results of these trials in which a mixture of 

 wheat meal and corn meal were fed in opposition to wheat meal 

 alone, are as follows: 



Feeding wheat meal and a mixture of wheat and com meed — Wiscon- 

 sin Station. 



853. Feeding sheaf wheat. — The value of unthreshed wheat 

 was determined by French, at the Oregon Station.^ Twelve 

 high-grade Berkshire pigs about eight months old were divided 

 into two lots of six each, the first being fed a mixture of three 

 parts chopped (coarse-ground) wheat and one part each of shorts 

 and ground oats, the second lot being supplied with wheat in the 

 sheaf. Sample sheafs when threshed showed that thirty- five per 

 cent of their weight was grain, and the grain consumed was cal- 

 culated on this basis. The results of the trial, which lasted from 

 September 3 to October 29, are summarized below: 



Feeding sheaf wheat in comparison with ground wheat, shorts and 

 ground oats — Oregon Station. 



Lot I, fed grain mixture., 

 Lot II, fed sheaf wheat , 



Av. wt. at 

 begin- 

 ning. 



Lbs. 



187 

 188 



Average 

 gain. 



Lbs. 



150 

 45 



Total 



grain 



fed. 



Lbs. 



3,587 

 1,988 



Feed for 



100 lbs. 



gain. 



Lbs. 



397 

 744 



* Bui. 42. 



