St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1894-10-27

Our table shows that IN the muscle
mating element-protein-the wheat
leads, while corn excels in the fatten-
ing elements (carbohydrates and fatl.
We may hold wheat the better single
food for the work horse and for grow
ing animAls-pigs. calves, colts, ETC.
while for laying ON fat, when the ami
nal il grown, corn leadA
In feeding wheat We have the expert
ments Of Dr.. voelcler. Of Woburn. En-
gland, who. after three carefully-eon-
ducted trials with aheep. eoneludsd
that whole wheat produces the cheap
est gain with sheep 1t current prices
for grain and stock foods in England.
Prof. william Brown fed wheat 1t
the Ontario Agricultural college in
Ds3. This wheat was . very poor Sam
PIE indeed, - Prof Brown said the
millers would probably not accept sseh
gram q . present. This wheat, ground
coarse, was fed t0a steer twenty months
old, along with hay and tuknips, with
the result of one pound Of increase for
Ave pounds hay. twenty-threc posnds
roots and four and half pounds Of
ground wheat, . very good showing in
deed.
Prof Robertson, Of the Dominiea
station, OTTAWA, fed wheat injured by
freezing with results varying from 81
pounds to Ill pounds increase for each
bushel fed to heavy hogs and gain Of
fourteen and fifteen pounds from .
bushel Of frozen wheat when fed to
pigs. fs-
At the Oregon station Prof. French
fed . mixture Of chopped oats and
wheat, equal weights, With the RESULT
Of one pound Of gain 1oe - pounds Of
the feed.
At this station the writer has fed
wheat, corn, and mixture of the two,
ground, to hogs, with good results, the
mixture Of cornmeal and ground wheat
showing the best gains for food fed.
The experiments have not yet been
published In detail.
In general we may expect . gain OF
from nine to fifteen pounds, Nve-weight,
from bushel Of wheat, the higher hg-
ure being for growing shoats. From
II 70 IA pounds are what we may look
for with fAttcning hogs under favora-
BILE conditions, the average being
about - pounds Of increase live weight
from bushel Of wheat.
We can feed whole wheat to sheep
always and to horses when their teeth
are good, but generally it should be
ground. For hogs II should be ground
and soaked. Where one has ground
wheat to feed I strongly recommend
mixing IL with eosn meal or shorts
preferably ooFn-meal for fattening
hogs and shorts for growing pigA
While It Il certainly . most unusual
practice can mot see why there II any
thing wrong in feeding wheat at the
prices this grain and corn stand 1t the
present time. Especially II IL better 70
feed wheat that il ''oA" In some way
than to take the low price that such
grain now brings j.
As to the relative merits of WHEAT
and corn Il b hard to draw any -exnct
comparison, for we can only compare
things that are alike. For growing
animals place wheat rom 10 10 IS
per cent. shove corn; for simply fatten-
ing growing doubt II Il will 70
any further pound for pound A mix
ture Of wheat and coFn,-ground, viii
make moro pork than either alone an
qaite sure.
desire to call especial attention to
the feeding Of low-grsde -Four at this
time. In England horses ore some
times fed broad, but more commoaly
our low-gTade Aour il fed there. Prot
Primrose Mcconnell reports II the Ar
ricultural Gazette Of Loodon that hs
has fed American low-GTade -Four for
six months and il rather surprised ct
the beneficiGl results" a
w. A. HExnY.
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