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pound of corn-and-cob meal has the same feed- 

 ing value as a pound of pure corn-meal. In 

 this connection it is important to grind the 

 cob finely. The writer has had difficulty in 

 successfully feeding corn-and-cob meal to pigs 

 when the cob was flaky or coarse, as they re- 

 fused to eat it unless well milled. 



The by-products of the corn plant embrace 

 most important and valuable feeding-stuffs. 

 The glucose and starch factories, distilleries 

 and hominy mills produce by-products from 

 the corn grain that are used for stock food on 

 an extensive scale. They include gluten meal, 

 gluten flour, gluten feed, glucose meal, glucose 

 feed, maize or starch feed, sugar feed or meal 

 and grano-gluten. These are produced by dif- 

 ferent methods of manufacture and so vary 

 widely in composition. Quoting from Allen:* 

 The corn is soaked until it is swollen and soft, 

 and is passed through the mill while wet, the 

 hulls and germs of the corn being rubbed off. 

 In some cases the starch is separated from this 

 mass by means of running water and the wet 

 residue is dried and sold as gluten feed. In 

 other cases the mass after grinding is bolted, 

 the starch and gluten passing through, while 

 the husk and germ remain behind. In some 

 factories the latter (husk and germ) are dried 

 and sold as corn-germ feed, corn-gerjn meal, 



♦Farmers' Bulletin No. 22, p. 16, The Feeding of Farm 

 Animals. 



