CHAPTER XIII 



CORN SUBSTITUTES AND OTHER BY-PROD- 

 UCTS FOR GROWING AND FATTENING PIGS 



A TIME may come, even in the corn-belt, when corn 

 will be regarded as too valuable to make its general use 

 for live-stock feeding either patriotic or profitable. It 

 may be many years under normal conditions before this 

 situation is realized, but the more or less restricted area 

 of the corn-belt, the rapid increase in the use of corn 

 for human food and other commercial purposes, and the 

 rate at which the population of the country is increas- 

 ing in density, are conditions which point to an increas- 

 ing scarcity of all cereal grains for feeding purposes in the 

 future. 



COEN BY-PRODUCTS 



The three most commonly used corn by-products for 

 pig-feeding are hominy feed, corn feed meal, and corn 

 germ meal. In addition, gluten feed and gluten meal have 

 been employed to a limited extent. 



Hominy feed. 



This by-product is officially designated either hominy 

 feed, hominy meal, or hominy chop. It is tentatively de- 

 fined as follows by the Association of Feed Control Officials 

 of the United States : " A kiln-dried mixture of the mill 

 run bran coating, the mill run germ, with or without a 



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