Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1894-09-20

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Our table shows that in the muscle
making e.ement-protein-the wheat
leads, while corn eXcels in the fatten-
ing elements Carbohydrates and fat.
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 is grown, corn leads.
In feeding wheat we have the expert
ments of Dr. Voelcker, of Woburn, En-
gland, who, after three carefully-con-
Quoted trials with sheep, concluded
that whole wheat produces the cheap
est gain with sheep ut current prices
for grain and stock foods in England.
Prof. William Brown fed wheat at
the Ontario Agricultural college in
1888. This wheat was very poor sam
pie indeed, as Prof. Brown said the
millers would probably not accept such
grain as present. This wheat, ground
coarse, was fed to steer twenty months
DID, along with hay and turnips, with
the result of one pound of increase for
five pounds hay, twenty-three pounds
roots and four and a half pounds of
ground wheat, very good showing in
deed,
Prof. Robertson, of the Dominion
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 a
bushel of frozen wheat when fed to
pigs.
At the Oregon station Prof. French
fed mixture of chopped oats and
wheat, equal weights, with the result
of one pound of gain for As pounds of
the feed.
At this station the writer has fed
wheat, corn, and a 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, overweight,
from a bushel of wheat, the higher fig
ure being for growing shoats From
IL to IA pounds are what we may look
for with fattening hogs under favora-
bic conditions, the average being
about IL pounds of increase live weight
from bushel of wheat.
We can feed whole wheat to sheer
always and to horses when their teeth
are good, but generally it should be
ground. For hogs it should be ground
and soaked. Where one has GROUND
wheat to feed / strongly recommend
mixing it with corn meal or shorts
preferably corn-meal for fattenine
hogs and shorts for growing pigs.
While it is certainly most unusua
practice l can not see why there is any
thing wrong in feeding wheat at tn,
prices this grain and corn stand at thC
present time. Especially is it better t.
feed wheat that is ''off" in some way
than to take the low price that sucl
grain now brings
AS to the relative merits of whea
| anu COTu IL 10 W uTdW any 'tAdC
comparison, for we can only compare
things that are alike. For growing
animals place wheat rom 10 to 2
per cent. above corn; for simply fatten
ing growing l doubt if it will G,
any further pound for pound. A mix
ture of wheat and corn, ground, will
make more pork than either alone l an
quite sure.
desire to call especial attention t.
the feeding of low-grade -four at thi
time. In England horses are some
times fed bread, but more commonl.
our low-grade flour is fed there. Prof
Primrose Mcconnell reports in the Ag
ricultural Gazette of London that h
has fed American low-grade -four TO
six months and is rather surprised a
the beneficial results"
w. A. HENRY.
Wisconsin Agricultural. Experimen