Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1894-11-19
WHEAT FED TO ANIMALS.
SURPRISING FACTS COLLECTED
IN KANSAS.
vi the 1894 Crop More Than Eight
Million Bushels viii Go to Feed
Cattle, Swine and Poultry.

r, OF Kansas has contained refer.
L ences to the fact that in many
localities the farmers were
feeding their surplus wheat, in lieu of
corn, as stock food
Early last summer F. D. Coburu,
Secretary OF the Kansas Department
OF Agriculture, became satisfied that,
owing to the shortage and compare
lively high price of cJrn and the CON
siderable accumulation of wheat. its
almost unprecedentedly low price and
generally unquestioned worth as n
nutrltive ration, a much larger aggre-
gate OF wheat was being withheld
from the milling market and diverte
to the new and widely differing pur-
poses OF meat production than there
were statistics to verify.
Approaching the importance of this
new phase of agriculture and the i'm
portant bearing it has upon the future
OF beth grain and animal production.
MIR. Coburn undertook the collection
OF such helpful information as might
be furnished by the farmers who were
making the practical test.
Inquiries covering all the features OF
wheat feeding We're sent to 1909 men
who were best situated and equipped
for discriminate observation. The
forthcoming report will contain over
iOO replies, which are OF character
to make them very useful contribu-
tions to this investigation.
With these reports will also be rep
resented much other matter of an i'm
oortant and interesting character, that
bearing on the average cost OF the
growing and binding of the wheat crop
Of Kansas being not the least i'm.
portant
From advance sneets OF this report
correspondent of the New York
Times has been able to get the follow
ing facts:
OF the 1927, 527 bushels OF winter
and spring wheat raised in Kansas in
1893, there have been 4, ,060, 523 bush.
els, or 1854 per cent, used rs feed for
farm animals, Cowley and Sumner
Counties leading, with 297,044 and
4O7, 606 bushels respectively.
When fed whole, more especially to
hogs, % per cent. is unassimilated and
shameful waste.
Ihree-fonrths OF the reports, repre-
sentlng hfty counties, state that,
pound Tor pound, wheat is superior to
corn iof lattehlh@ hoSs, even with the
20 per cent. unmasticited, by from Z
10 % per cent. The average OF these
reports indicates a suDeriOritv of 1G
per cent While the average OF the
other one-tourth indicates II per cent.
ihierlority.
AS 10 the quantity OF live pork
which may be expected from bushel
OF wheat the average OF all reports
gives e!eVen pounds. One report gives
seven pounds, most OF them over ten,
an1 lew Us hlSh us twenty pounds.
IN a general way these reports
sno" that III Kansas, under the con
oltiohs rs 10 production and prices
"l ,do Wheat and corn existing IN 1888 and
loof' WheaI nus become very unusu-
al ana important factor III the grain
IeealnS OF all classes oil farm stock.
III Is superior to corn, pound for
pouna' us n grain to produce health
4ui' "elI-phlanced CROWN IN young
animals. Mixed with corn, oats, or
pran' IL is much superior to either
h'one lor WORK horses. Feed to cows,
IL is an exceptional milk producer,
ana 1or that purpose corn is scarcely
TO be compared with It,
fof swine OF an ages 1t is health
a I44lI Ia f.Ns, Il