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Barley is also an excellent feeding stuff for pigs, except 

 suckling sows. For fattening hogs it is ground with maize and 

 fed as slop with the addition of -i small proportion of bean meal 

 or ground linseed cake or some other feeding stuff rich in 

 protein. A suitable mixture would be equal weights of barley 

 and maize with about one-twentieth to one-tenth of their weight 

 of bean meal or linseed cake. 



For younger animals the barley may be crushed and fed dry, 

 and may form nearly the whole of the ration provided the 

 animals have access to roots or greenstuff. 



Oats are so well known as a feeding stuff as haadly to need 

 any description of their uses. It may, however, be worth remark 

 that oats are much more valuable for working or milking animals 

 or for stores than for fattening. In case it is found desirable 

 to use oats for pigs, the following method may be found valu- 

 able : grind the oats and mix to ra thin slop with water ; stir well 

 and pour through a coarse sack. The finer, more floury, por- 

 tions of the grain will run through and the thin slop thus 

 obtained, thickened somewhat with maize meal or barley meal 

 or middlings, may be fed to young pigs or to fattening hogs. 

 The husky portions left in the sack may be used for sows. 



Potatoes are a wholesome food for any class of live stock, 

 provided they do not form an excessive proportion of the ration. 

 They can be used either raw or cooked, but only small quantities 

 should be given in the raw state. The common method of using 

 lip potatoes which for any reason it is not possible to sell or to 

 use for human consumption, is to cook them for pigs. In this 

 form they can be used to replace part of the meal ration at the 

 rate of 4 ]b. of potatoes to 1 lb. of meal. 



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WHEN SHOULD THE FARMER 

 SELL HOME-GROWN FOODS? 



Arthur G. Ruston, B.A., B.Sc. (Lond.), D.Sc. (Leeds), 

 and J. S. Simpson, B.Sc, 

 Department of Agriculture, The Universitij, Leeds. 



In the course of the Farm Costings investigations carried on 

 by the University of Leeds it has been observed that there is a 

 growing tendency this year for the farmer to feed his grain to 

 ■stock, rather than to sell it and purchase cakes and meals. 

 Inquii-ies ije also continually being made as to whether at pre- 



