CORN OIL, CAKE MEAE FOR PIGS 
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Hart, of the Wisconsin Station, deducting and reasoning from 
some of his livestock experiments, has this to say about the germs 
of corn : “it is necessary to attribute to the proteins of the embryo 
of this grain (corn) a high efficiency.” This means that under cer- 
tain conditions the proteins of Corn Oil Cake Meal are highly effi- 
cient, as for instance when we feed this feed in combination with 
tankage (or milk or alfalfa pasture or rape pasture) and corn. It 
seems to fit in nicely and save protein, that is, a pound of such 
combined proteins goes further. 
Osborne and Mendel of the Connecticut Agricultural Experi- 
ment Station and Yale University respectively, in speaking of corn 
germs say : “We have found that the corn germ contains proteins 
which are superior in promoting growth to those found in the en- 
dosperm (other parts of the kernel including the bran). Further, 
they say : “When supplemented with a small amount of meat pro- 
teins Corn Germ is capable of inducing very rapid growth. It is 
also rich in the water soluble vitamine.” 
The absence of the water soluble vitamine from foods, such as 
polished rice, for instance, causes a disease of the nervous sys- 
tem, known as polyneuritis, which literally translated means a 
disease or inflammation (itis) of many (poly) nerves (neUr). De- 
germinated Corn is lacking in this essential vitamine. Naturally, 
therefore, we believe that the substance was removed by this pro- 
cess in the germ. Voegtlin and Myers of the Hygienic laboratory 
of the U. S. Public Health Service have recently shown that pig- 
eons fed on whole corn do not get this disease, but when the germs 
are removed with a pen knife and the balance of the kernel fed 
to those pigeons, this disease with its unfortunate symptoms of 
paralysis, and later, often quite soon, death, appears. The difficul- 
ties come in a couple of weeks following the change from whole 
corn grain to the germ free corn. They say: “the germ or em- 
bryo of the . . . corn kernel contains all of the antineuritic vi- 
tamine of the grain.” 
When we add Corn Oil Cake Meal to the corn-tankage ration 
we believe that there is improved thereby : first, the protein quality, 
this allowing tankage to be markedly saved ; second, the vitamine 
content of the ration. 
It is always well to allow before pigs a mineral mixture in which 
common salt and limestone (or air slacked lime) are the principal 
ingredients, also to put pigs on good leafy green pastures. Thus 
we tend to play safer with our pigs and more securely with our 
pocket books. 
