The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1902-05-30
Rice Meal for Pigs.

,+ Farmers' Bulletin issued Y! +
II.;.ad states Department OF Agri- +
o,,1+,,ra contained the following 'a,u +
49, reformation concerning the 'aiue T
e. zoo meal as a feed for pigs; +
Tn the process of milling rice nun
,nroducts are obtained lncluo- T
! oen ,,a,;sb bran, and hulls. Some sIla;t i
1,st atc is usually found mlxeo WIN
'he n MIXTURE of rice polish, rice er az
ond rice -four is obtained at somI 1
rice mills and is called rlee ~ wav of .
Although there is no UNIFORM ~ to .
ni.at;ng this by-product it is useu
aons;derabie extent as teedIhs g.
TIn South Carolina Experiment eIa-
.;on recently reported test on ths nnrn
narrative values of rice meal ""0
meal for pigs. :. a.scr;bed as the
+o+ai bv-product obtained IN cleaning
4 tbe rice grains for the Market. ,,rnt
'nI 90 Contained about the same anloun 90
y nrn+e;n fat. and carbohydrates "'
corn mead. Nth two lots of
gu three pigs each about hve Iioh'n7
=, the beginning of the trlal. sL;m milk
UT 'n1 ~ ara;n was mixed with SKIN nhnn
st. :, 4ha ratio of la, and the pigs W.
n;vsn all they would eat OF tne mt n. fed
For thirty-one days lot one was Mas the
. = | meal ration oAhN
"a rice-meal ration. ,oa IF twenty
davs the rations were reversed
'Cons idering the test as ".oie 20
average daily gain per pig on IN tIo cos
A. and skim milk was LIZ pounas' .n . q
~. of pound of gain, 3.o o1 n,,nds Of mil
lme uo,nds of meal and 80! Pouhos -
elsh p tnare Teouired per pound of gam; o,
I. "e ere oorn meal and skim milk the ave
on as eG,n cain per pig was l.66 pounds
at 4Se cost of pound of gain, 400 IS ee la !;
On- ond the food required per Pom n ., o.
fi 2.57 pounds of meal and io'No p-'
1.nrt skim milk. 4ho station. ri
meal had feeding value equaA ~
oraa+ar than that of corn meal. :. I
Lake Aoonrdino to the experimenter II
Hus- a4;oed NV feeders that the use
mess peeh IL for fattening hogs had q U
+ IN dencv to weaken the lntestihes Va
), and s uen'y h,,t the test. affords no data on
mop s;oos ga neither lot Of pigs
sad nv rice meal for the whole u
Ltd, Some wears ago the Massacnos "
lesday station compared rice meal anu :
testing meal as feed for pigs in 1 teS' W. ~
engine with two lots of three pigs ea'n' '"
, Abe covered four months.
,,,+ COY IT, ,,;os were about one and one
,,ontbs Old at the beginning Oh
ng real trial. .,4 4of Grain @
| their At first the ahounC o,sart of :,
present was about four ounces PEI
E Nice milk. ;,oreased as
,or and The quantity WAS
inter- of pigs grew older. nor hea
The average daily gain per h nn
rice meal was l.4l pounds anu on
tho meal LAP pounds. nov ,
nee 1 tEe The amounts of food eaten per
puppy Of gain were also practically Che
P. Pm M Al From these tests the conclusion
3, diinS' drawn that. the two feeding sun
elec'ion' practically the same value Tor Pig
The average results OF the two
show that the coefhcients OF dlges ~
ne police We're as follows: Dry matter, ~ -
nductmg tein. 81; fat, 81; and nitrogen-if
to CaPS. tract, 81 per cent. ,
It. Wehrt Inc Nv 49, -Ie5a+ter, 1914; protein,
k 1Sc Ssn fat 92.l, and ntrogen-free exerae
The rice meal is therefore app
slightly less digestible than cor1
n-Wesson but in most respects it appears
nearly equal to corn meal IN
" for value that it is worthy OF a11el
'URMAL to those regions where it may be ca
VIII tanned.