The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1910-03-26
GROUND FEED FOR STOCK.

| ShoON0 EGUNfO SJOCk.
Does it pay to grind feed for hogs?
This question has been discussed for
years, but does not seem to have been
finally. settled one way o. the other.
The learned experinenters are not
agreed in their conclusions, probably
because their work was done under
different conditions, lind perhaps tfay
had previously formed decidsd opiI
ions which rendered them incofnpe-
tent to make an impartial test, says
writer in the Country Gentleman.
Every farmer knows that to- obtain
the largest crop OK grain which the
lsndiis capable Of producing, the humps
must be crushed, and the s6il made
mellow and fine so that the network
Of plant roots can easily penetrate II
In all directions, embrace every par
ticle and extract the NECESSARY nour-
ishnient from the land \
So In feeding animals especially
greedy animals, Ike swine Il sis iill-
PORTRAIT 70 have the hard grain foods
reduced to fine meal, To enable the
gastric juices Of ihe stomach to pen
crate every particle III the mass a.
posted in.tiie stomach, siid act on At
III aid Of digestion. giving the ab.
sorbent vessels Il fair chance to come
In contact with more OF the atoms pf
which the grain is composed and ap-
prOpriate more Of the rutriment from
them Not many experienced feedefs
Of swine will dispute this, bhts SOME
with maintain that thes strong Jaws
81 the hogs do grind the. grain i1ne
enough A writer not l6ng ako said
There is abundant eSideiice that the
hog. can grind; and aksiihilate his }bod
better Than tile Ingenuity III man car
datit for him Tilt were true thats tlie
hDg can Grind bis food better tha i a
| Mill ittdssteftain lie kss neFer, done Ill
lneighbor once took me to see his
| hogs. which he said he was winferihg
on whole buckwheat. although there
was, a good srist mill less than d mile
distant showed him the hogs dung
| WAS fill 'of buck wheat come Kernels
not eve broken. "Oh,'' sad he, "thaf's
nothing they eat that all over again
and get the valiie OUT Well, sub-
pose they did. Ifs such eating over
of their own eyaen&tions wholesome
| for the hogs? Can whole grain and
broken kernels pass through the stoIh-
achs and the long tortuous passages
| Of the infestines and again be eaten
| without At length causing Injury
There Ii Hot i. particle ,of doubt thkt
the ding Of animals tlike iiumsf, eS-
I cfement)is ftiif IL poisonous germs
elected from the system, and Witch
carmot sasaih be- Introduced Into lie
body Without danger. II hogs, aft
compelled BY hunger 20 eat over their
eyacuatldns to save the partle rIHasti-
| Gated kernels, Is there not danger OK
! inviting hog cholera to the pens? II
| they do not eat IL over. there ~ q
| great waste OF grain unless a large
| dock or chickens could banqtiet on II
Al have raised and fattened hogs f6f
more than haif,a CENTURY and 1 Know
that they greatly prefer ground feed
! fSf q regular diess ana win Hisest III
better. and fatten on It faster Than
| on whole grain, Occasionally have
/ ted our hogs whols corn for change,
but they never half masticated 1t, and
soma came through them as coarse
as saflb Do lehman Of Saxony, Ger-
nisny, found that SO per cent Of ".
whole grain fed 10 hogs was undisest.
cd, and says thar food should be- re-
duced toAa condition more or less fiit
before being given to such animals.
/ s.. H. Clay Of Bourbon county, Ken.
lucky, made several experiments II
feeding hogs, with the following re-
snlts: Other conditions being eQua
and similar, one buHhel OF dry corn
made Ave rounds and 10 ounces D,
pork; one bushel Of ground corn. bolt.
ed, made at one trial "A pounds and
seven ounces ofipork. at another trial
is pounds seven ounces u porH and
at another, IL potinds OF pork "A
number OF experiments at, different
stations are ali agreed that the diner
erce In favor IL the meal Is great, ahd
that ii pays wgii to- grind grain fpr
hogs Formerly Prof Henry ot VIA
cnnsin university asserted that II aid