Other Cereal Grains for Growing Pigs 



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In each experiment the results in rate and economy 

 of gain were in favor of the soaked wheat. With neither 

 ration, however, were the results satisfactory. 



Soaked whole wheat versus soaked ground wheat. 



Accumulated studies by the experiment stations of 

 the country have proved rather conclusively that wheat 

 must be ground for the best results. In Table CXXX 

 the results of five experiments are summarized when 

 soaked whole wheat was fed one lot of pigs and soaked 

 ground whole wheat another lot. The wheat was soaked 

 twenty-four to forty-eight hours. Tankage was fed as a 

 supplement in one experiment and alfalfa hay in a second. 

 In the other cases no protein feeds were used. In one 

 of the trials the wheat fed had been frosted. 



Table CXXX. — Soaked Whole Wheat versus Soaked 

 Ground Wheat (Av. 5 Exps.) ' 



For producing a given gain, 100 pounds of soaked 

 ground wheat is shown here to have the value of 121 

 pounds of soaked whole wheat. In addition, the pigs 



» Grisdale, Central Exp. Farms, Canada, Bull. 33 ; Bliss and 

 Lee, Neb. Exp. Sta. Bull. 144 ; Snyder and Burnett, Neb. Exp. 

 Sta. Bull. 147 ; Good and Smith, Ky. Exp. Sta. Bull. 75. 



