Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-09-07

Dakota station, are thought to Justify
the following conclusions. The millet
was fed to one lot of hogs, barley to
another and wheat to a third lot:
G) Millet seed can De grown prof
itably as a fattening ration for swine.
(2) 1t does not furnish as good ra-
ton as either barley or wheat for
swine. (3) On account of being so we'll
adapted to the conditions in this state
md so palatable a feed it should have
l place in the rotation of crops on every
stock farm. (4) 1t was not so profitable
to feed for a period OF 81 as it was Sc
days, as the rate of grain decreased.
60 The carcasses Of the lot fed with
millet were clothed with pure, white
fat of superior quality as compared
with the fat of those fattened on barley
or wheat CO. 1t requires one-fifth more
millet than barley meal and a trifle
more barley meal than wheat to make a
pound of gain. 90 A bushel of Sc
pounds Of millet is equal to bushel of
4S pounds Of barley for hog feed (S)
Millet meal produced softer quality
of fat than did either barley or wheat
meal. (9) Millet mea. was found not
to be so good for fattening ration as
barley meal or wheat meal during ex-
tremely cold weather.
The millet seed fed was the Russian
sort, Black Voronesh, commonly called
hog millet." It's growth for hog fat
tening is recommended for South Da-
kota because 1T natures it's crop quick
ly, in about 70 days, is a fairly good
yielder, thirty bushels to the acre in
this case, and is a good drouth resister,
therefore surer crop than any other
fattening grain, which makes good any
slight inferiority as a fattening food.
This experiment. like many others,
made by professional experimenters, is
unsatisfactory, and should be consider
ed as proving the absolute truth Of the
conclusions quoted. The animal stom-
ach, as we'll as that of the human,
is such a peculiar and varying affair
that it is possible that if each group
of hogs had been fed another grain
than the one it received the results
would have been quite different. And,
again, it is regretful that another lot
or two of hogs was not fed mixture
of the grains used in the trial, or two
of them, at least. 1t has been fairly
well demonstrated that mixed ration
is preferable to one composed of sim
gle feed, and here would have been a
good opportunity to give that matter
another test.
There are many readers of expert
ment station bulletins who feel that
most of the current experimental work
come little short Of serving the really
practical ends that were originally de-
signed and this may account in some
measure for the generally limited de-
mand for station literature. The care
full analyst of bulletins very often no.
tees the absence from experiments o.
factors the consideration of which
would have added much to the value
of the work And he also notices with
regret a disposition to accept the re-
suit of one experiment as establishing
a principle or a fact beyond further
controversy. These reflections are
made in a friendly spirit, and with the
design of suggestion rather than crit
icism.-Farm, Stock and Home.
A farmer who has tried the expert
ment says: II you will sprinkle sui
phur on the barn floor and turnout