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economical practice. At the Wisconsin station 

 a bushel of shelled corn Tnade 11.4 lbs. of pork 

 when fed alone to pigs, while a bushel fed to 

 them when running with corn-fed steers made, 

 with the help of the droppings of the steers, 

 17.6 lbs., or over one-half more. 



Corn -and -cob meal vs. corn -meal. —The 

 question is often asked as to which is the more 

 valuable food, corn and cob ground together or 

 corn-meal alone. Considerable experimental 

 feeding has been conducted to throw light on 

 this question, and very generally the informa- 

 tion secured favors the grinding of the corn and 

 cob together. It is assumed that the pure meal 

 packs in the digestive organs and is not so 

 readily permeated by the digestive fluids as is 

 the corn-and-cob meal, the cob making the 

 mass more porous. 



At the Maine experiment station Jordan fed 

 two lots of pigs 81 days, one receiving corn- 

 and-cob meal, the other pure meal. There was 

 but little difference in the gain made by each 

 lot.- Shelton at the Kansas station found that 

 it required 650 lbs. of corn-and-cob meal to 

 make 100 lbs. of gain when fed to pigs, while it 

 required 670 lbs. of pure meal to make an equal 

 gain. In a steer-feeding experiment Prof. Shel- 

 ton also secured results favorable to the use of 

 the cob with the corn. 



General testimony seems to show that a 



