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explained by a difference in the quality of corn and barley 

 fed. Examination of the carcasses showed the corn-fed 

 pigs to be decidedly inferior to the barley-fed animals. 



Regarding the suitability of barley for bacon-produc- 

 tion Day ^ says : " Barley is a noted hog food in Europe ; 

 but some feeders in this country do not look upon it with 

 favor. We have secured excellent results from barley, 

 however, both in the amount of gain and the quality of 

 bacon. For young pigs it should be mixed with wheat 

 middlings, a very little barley being used at first, and 

 the quantity gradually increased. For older pigs peas 

 or wheat may be added. Some succulent food, such as 

 roots or green feed, should always be fed with it ; and 

 skim-milk makes a great improvement. It is not gen- 

 erally regarded with favor as a food for breeding sows." 



WHEAT 



The demand for wheat flour in this country and abroad 

 leaves little sound wheat available for feeding purposes. 

 Occasionally, however, through the scarcity of old corn 

 and a large wheat crop, this cereal is available at a price 

 more commensurate with its feeding value. At such 

 times the corn-belt feeder especially desires to know the 

 relative merits of wheat and corn, and the method of 

 feeding wheat most likely to give the best results. 



Wheat versus corn. 



Plumb and Anderson " at the Indiana station and 

 Snyder and Burnett ^ at the Nebraska station have con- 

 ducted feeding trials in which the dry unground wheat 

 was compared with shelled corn. In the Indiana experi- 



1 Ont. Agr. Coll. Bull. 129. ^BuU. 67. ' lUd. 167. 



