Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1908-02-06

two-thirds corn chops, whole corn,
wheat, bran, or shorts; mix with
water to q thin mush in two yes
sells Gan old barrel sawed in two
is good). and leave to sour or fer
ment, which will take from IL to
forty-eight hours, according to the
weather and other conditions; then
feed from these alternately, using
the contents of one, while that of
the other is left to sour.
A good growing ration may be
based on one pound Of the dry
mixture per hundred pounds of
live weight. For quick fattening
this may be doubled, quadrupled
or even more largely incdeased.
Indeed the Texas experiment sta
ton fed as much as seven and a
half pounds per day to hundred
and fifty pound hogs, though this
is extremely uneconomical, if not
dangerous.
When ready to feed add fresh
water to the feeding ration suf-
ficient to bring to a thin slop,
about the consistency of sweet milk
and give the hogs all they will
clean up.
All hogs eat it greedily and all
thrive on it from the lordly head
of the herd to the thinnest gruntlet
But for "piggy" or sucking sows
it isespecially valuable, giving to
the pigs both before and after far
rowing g growth and vigor attain
able with no other food on earth.
In an eXperiecne of over % years
J. have never seen a hog refuse to
eat it, or injured by it. Indeed
it is not only the best and cheapest
feed on earth, but it is an effectual
prophylactic and hogs fed on it
seem entirely immune to any OF
the common ills that hogs are heir
to.
AS to the feeding value of cotton
seed meal compared with corn,
chemical analysis, confirmed by
years of practical tests answer this.
A hundred pounds Of corn contains
from six to ten pounds of protein,
Of carbohydrates.
A hundred piunds of cotton seed
meal contains from forty-fve to
fifty pounds of protein, from eight
to twelve pounds of fat, and about
twenty-five pounds Of carbohyd-
rates.
The Agricultural Experiment
stations and the agricultural text
books, all teach us these things.
First. To feed a balanced ra-
Ition.
Second, That balanced ration
is one in which the three important
feed elements, protein, fat and car
bohydrates, are combined in such
proportions as to meet the needs
Of the body in the best way at the
lowest cost.
Third. That protein is, the most
valuable food constituent, supply
ing growth, muscle, bone and lean
meat, and by it the value or all
feed is measured.
Foruth. That fat in feeds sup
plies heat and energy and builds
up fat in the body, but makes no
muscle and flesh.
Fifth. That under the general
term carbohydrates are classed the
starch and sugars present in all
feeds, forming the cheapest and
most aboundant feeding material
and like fat giving heat and ener-
gy but making no flesh, bone or
muscle.
Sixth. That a balanced ration
for hogs should contain about one
pound of protein to every 5 pounds
of fat and carbohydrates.
Now, keeping these truisms in
mind it is easy to see from the fig
ures already given, that corn is
seriously deficient in protein, is
not properly balanced and is an
expensive and insufficient ration
when fed alone; that cotton seed
meal in protein and fat combined
is about five times, and in pro-
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