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Corn and Cob Meal 
I would like to kuovv whether corn 
ground with the cobs is more profitable to 
feed than to shell the corn and grind into 
chop. I wish to use the chop for hogs 
and cattle. j. f. 
Dallastown, Pa. 
The grinding of corn increases its di¬ 
gestibility from six to eight per cent. If 
you are feeding dairy cows and your 
grain ration is concentrated, that is, does 
not include some bran, beet pulp or other 
bulky materials, it is believed by some 
that the corn and cob meal has its vir¬ 
tues. Not that there is any nutriment in 
the corncobs, but rather because they in¬ 
crease the bulk, thus mechanically aiding 
digestion. If I were feeding clover or 
Alfalfa hay I am sure that I would not 
use the corn and cob meal, provided my 
grain ration was bulky and palatable. 
As far as hogs and horses are con¬ 
cerned, do not under any circumstances 
feed these animals corncob meal. Their 
stomachs are small and require concen¬ 
trated feed, and if you will observe either 
in your feed mangers with horses, or in 
your yard with pigs, they have to be 
very hungry indeed before they will 
chew up the cobs, and if they had any 
value the hungry animal would surely dis¬ 
cover it. It has been said that the only tool 
necessary for feeding corn to a pig was 
the scoop shovel; that grinding, soaking, 
cooking or other methods of preparation 
do not justify the labor cost involved. 
Ground com is better for dairy cows than 
shelled corn, but ear corn is quite as use¬ 
ful for mature pigs as corn prepared in 
any other way. F. C. M. 
Cornmeal for Hog Feed 
1. Does it hurt the value of cornmeal 
for hog feed if table meal has been taken 
out of it? Is it worth 15 cents per 100 
lbs. to have corn ground for hog feed? 2. 
If one kind of dairy feed analyzes 24—S-10 
and another 12—1-10, is one worth twice 
as much as the other? s. C. A. 
New York. 
1. Ground corn from which the finer 
portions of the meal have been removed 
for table use makes a most excellent feed 
for swine; in fact if this meal were used 
by itself it would in reality be superior to 
the whole ground meal, as the percentage 
of protein in the by-product would be 
higher than the percentage of this mate¬ 
rial found in the whole ground corn. This 
is based on the same theory that gluten 
meal, which is a corn product, is consid¬ 
ered a protein carrier, as the starch and 
a large percentage of carbohydrates have 
been removed. A6 to whether its is worth 
15 cents per 100 lbs. to have the meal 
ground depends entirely upon the age and 
condition of your pigs. It has been esti¬ 
mated that grinding increases the digesti¬ 
bility of corn about eight per cent and 15 
cents per 100 lbs. would be about eight 
cents per bushel. It is clear that the con¬ 
sumption of corn is slightly increased in 
case this is ground and mixed into a 
thick slop, and I would prefer the ground 
meal for very young pigs, likewise it is 
preferable in finishing pigs weighing over 
200 pounds. You would increase the value 
of your com materially in case you would 
add some variety, such as ground barley, 
ground oats and about 10 per cent of 
digester tankage to your mixture, and if 
you are maintaining a number of sows or 
breeding animals, you would cheapen the 
ration by including Alfalfa or clover hay 
as a feed for swine. 
2. As to whether an analysis of a dairy 
feed showing double the percentage of 
protein, carbohydrates and fibre has dou¬ 
ble the feeding value, this would not 
always indicate that it has double the 
value as a food for animals. It has been 
demonstrated time and again that chem¬ 
ists often find things in feed that a cow 
cannot find or use, largely because it is in¬ 
digestible; a feed containing an increased 
percentage of fibre would be very unde¬ 
sirable and would actually be worth less 
per ton than a product showing a smaller 
percentage of this material. I would 
cling to such products as cornmeal. hom¬ 
iny meal, ground oats, oil meal, cotton¬ 
seed meal, buckwheat middlings and 
wheat bran, and there is no reason why 
you cannot purchase these materials and 
establish your own mixture and get much 
better results than will be yielded through 
the purchase of mixed feeds containing 
such refuse materials as oat hulls, peanut 
hulls, rice hulls and various weed seeds. 
F. C. M. 
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