Arizona republican., 1891-04-11

Corn Meal and skim MILK and Barley
 and skim sIilk--Corn Is the Most vaiu. able as a Fattening Food, but Barley
 Builds Bone and Muscle--variety.
 Professor w. A. Henry, of the Wis consin Experiment station, has been ex- nerimenting with barley as feed as com. pared with corn.
 The purpose of this experiment was to determine the value of barley in com parison with corn for hog feeding. In the first trial ten hogs, fourteen months old were divided into two lots of five each. To the first lot was fed barley meal, while the second received corn meal. The experiment continued eight weeks, during which time the first lot of hogs consumed 2,S3s pounds of barley meal. and gained 601 pounds. In the same time the second lot of hogs con sumed 3,l00 pounds of corn meal, and gained T13 pounds. From this we find that Lot required All pounds of bar ley meal for 100 pounds gain. Lot ? re- ouircd 435 pounds of corn meal for 10C pounds gain.
 This shows that it required 36 pounds, or per cent. more barley meal than corn meal to produce 100 pounds of gain. In this experiment both feeds were soaked with water. It was found that it re. quired about 3 pounds of water to prop erly soak pound of barley meal, while a pound of corn meal required but ? pounds of water. The hogs fed on barley meal consumed 30 pounds of water daily with the feed, while the hogs on corn meal consumed @ pounds daily Even with this large amount of water in the feed the barley hogs drank pounds extra daily from a separate trough, while the corn meal hogsslrank but three-fourths of pound.
 In the next experiment. the pigs were about five months old at the beginning of the trial. There were six pigs in each lot. Lot was fed barley meal and sweet skim milk; lot 2, corn meal and sweet skim milk. The experiment. lasted nine weeks, during which time lot 1 con stunned l,993 pounds of barley meal, 2,4Oi pounds of sweet skim milk and gained Gu pounds. In the same time lot 2 con sumed 1 l,s57 pounds of corn meal, 2,l92 pounds of sweet skim milk and gained j9l pounds. Lot consumed 320 pounds of barley meal and 39S pounds of sweet ssiim milk for 100 pounds of gain. Lot 2 consumed 306 pounds of corn meal and g.; pounds of sweet skim milk for 100 pounds of gain.
 Ayain, there is a difference of about g per cent. in favor of the corn. These ex- pcrimcnt5slowel that when feeding bar Icy cara should be taken to prepare the foo So as to render it palatble. Hogs will eat corn meal in almost any shape dry, wet, and even sour; when fed bar ley meal their preference calls for con. siderable soaking in comparatively lar @ amount of water. Our results show that barley is not quite so valuable as corn, pound for pound, for laying on fat, but we must remember that corn has a very high feeding value in such cases as this. One prime use for barley is in giv- ing the farmer an additional variety of feed. ...
 As rule we have too few kinds of feed upon our farms, and we rely too much on corn. In barley we have a feed capable of building up bone and muscle and serving a generally useful purpose on the farm. In California it Is the almost universal horse feed, and no animals have more endurance than horses raised and fed on rolled barley. Barley is the common grain feed of Eng land and north Europe. In the light of these facts, why should our farmers longer harbor any prejudice against it?