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such feeds as the outer layers of wheat grains, or wheat 

 middlings, or perhaps flaxseed or oil meal, for these are 

 rich in proteins, and proteins produce new tissue or milk. 

 The ration for the hogs in his fattening pens will consist 

 largely of corn, for it is rich in the foods that produce 

 fat. His growing calves get a considerable amount of 

 such feeds as ground oats, oil meal or wheat middlings 

 along with their corn meal ; and even his fattening steers 

 get in addition to corn some such protein feed as cotton- 

 seed meal. 



