834 



Feeding Stuffs for December. 



[Dec, 



Variety. Complete No potass} e 



fert \ 1 her. feH i i i *er. 

 Comet 40 78 

 Kondine Red. 13 33 



Cases have this year been brought to the writer's notice of 

 crops unexpectedly doing less well than might have been 

 expected in spite of the drought; e.g. of corn after potatoes, of 

 mangolds after mangolds, and the fact that the first-named 

 crop in each case is a potash depleter suggests that a remedy 

 might be in the use of potassic fertilisers. 



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NOTES ON FEEDING STUFFS 

 FOR DECEMBER. 



E. T. Halnan, M.A., Dip. Agric. (Cantab.), 

 Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries. 



Feeding Wheat to Stock. — Several correspondents have 

 written to ask that, in view of the fall in price, wheat should 

 be included in the list of feeding stuffs dealt with in the follow- 

 ing table. It has therefore been included, and it will be seen 

 that the price has reached a stage where it is as economical to 

 the farmer to feed the wheat to stock as to market it for flour. 

 It is also interesting to note that at the prices recorded in the 

 table, both bran and middlings are more expensive to feed than 

 wheat itself. The points to be observed in feeding wheat are 

 familiar to most stock feeders, but it will perhaps do no harm 

 to repeat them. (1) Wheat should be ground for all stock 

 except sheep, since the kernels are small and hard. (2) Wheat 

 so ground should be ground only to a very coarse meal. If 

 ground to a fine meal, the meal pastes in the month and forms 

 an unsatisfactory feeding stuff. (8) Wheat should only form a 

 small proportion of the concentrates fed to stock, except 

 perhaps in the case of the pig. With the horse, feeding wheat 

 in any quantity leads to digestive disturbances and skin 

 eruptions. 



Farm Values of Feeding Stuffs. — It is very convenient for 

 the farmer to obtain some idea of the value per ton of the 

 home-grown feeding stuffs as compared with purchased feed- 

 ing stuffs, and several correspondents have asked that hay and 

 oat straw should be included. An attempt has been made to 

 do this, taking for comparison in the case of hay and straw, 

 dried grains, and in the case of oat and vetch silage, the average 



