The Van Buren press., 1894-09-22

Our table shows that in the MUSCLE
making element-protein-th wheat
leads, while corn excels in the fatten-
ihg 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 DIR. 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 at current prices
for grain and stock foods in England.
Prof. William Brown fed wheat at
the Ontario Agricultural college in
1883. This wheat was a very poor sam
pie indeed, as Prof Brown said the
millers would probably not accept such
grain as a present This wheat, ground
coarse, was fed to a steer twenty months
old, along with hay and turnips, with
the result of one pound Of increase for
five pounds hay. twenty-three pounds
roots and four and 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 o.
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 4.s 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, live-weight,
from bushel of wheat, the higher fig
ure being for growing shoats. From
| 12 to IA pounds are what we may look
for with fattening hogs under favora-
BILE conditions, the average being
about IL 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 it should be ground
and soaked. Where one has ground
wheat to feed I strongly recommend
mixing it with corn meal or shorts
preferably corn-meal for fattening
hogs and shorts for growing pigs
! While it is certainly a most unusual
practice can not see why there is any
thing wrong in feeding wheat at the
prices this grain and corn stand at the
present time. Especially is it better to
feed wheat that is 'off" in some way
than to take the low price that such
grain now brings.
AS to the relative merits of wheat
and corn it is hard to draw any exact
comparison, for we can only compare
things that are alike. For growing
animals place wheat rom 10 to IS
per cent. above corn; for simply fatten-
ing growing / doubt If it will go
any further pound for pound. A mix
ture of wheat and corn, ground, will
make more pork than either alone am
quite sure.
desire to call especial attention to
the feeding of low-grade -four at this
time. In England horses are some
times fed bread, but more commonly
our low-grade -four is fed there. Prof
Primrose Mcconnell reports in the Ag-
ricultural Gazette of London that he
has fed American low-grade -four for
six months and is rather surprised at
the beneficial results"
w. A. HENRY.
Wisconsin Agricultural Experiment