22 
BARLEY 
Average Results of the Different Feeds. 
Number of Tests. 
Average Weight 
at Beginning 
of Test. 
Average 
Daily Gain. 
Average 
Daily Feed. 
Food per pound 
of Growth. 
Grain 
lbs. 
Skim- 
milk 
qts. 
Grain 
lbs. 
Skim- 
milk 
qts. 
Whole Corn 
6 
71 
0.39 
2.0 
0,7 
7.0 
1.1 
Ground Corn 
5 
60 
0.46 
2.4 
1.0 
5.4 
1.1 
Whole Bald Barley 
8 
88 
0.58 
2.3 
1.2 
5.0 
1.3 
Ground Bald Barley 
5 
67 
0.74 
2.4 
0.8 
3.6 
0.8 
Whole Common Barley--. 
4 
68 
0.49 
2.3 
0.5 
5.4 
0.7 
Ground Common Barley. - 
4 
47 
0.70 
2.4 
1.1 
4.3 
1.1 
Ground Corn and Barley. 
4 
50 
0.77 
2.1 
1.0 
4.1 
0.8 
VALUE OF GRINDING GRAIN FOR FIGS. 
The preceding tests offer thirteen comparisons of 
whole and ground grain. In almost erery case, the 
ground grain has given decidedly better results than the 
unground. This is most noticeable in the case of corn. 
The little pigs weighing only 25 pounds each, made but 
small headway eating whole corn, and gained but the 
tenth of a pound per day per head. The older pigs had 
no trouble in masticating the grain, but their growth is 
still somewhat slower than those fed on ground grain, 
and requires more food to produce a pound of growth. 
Ground bald barley made a better growth than the 
unground. To one who watched the experiment, the 
wonder is that the results are not still more in favor of 
the ground grain. Bald barley is smooth and very hard; 
harder than the hardest wheat. A large part of it w^hen 
fed unground, passed through the alimentary canal whole 
and undigested. In the course of the day, these grains 
would be again and again eaten from the floor of the pen. 
It is possible that the same grain passed through a pig 
from three to flve times. Each time some of the grains 
would be cracked and digested. The small difference in 
the results of the ground and unground, would seem to 
indicate that eventually most of the grain was digested, 
but the pigs ce^’^ nnly earned all they ate. 
