The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1912-04-26
Cheap Food For
Fattening Ttock
Ground Corn Will Give a Return Of
+ Fifty Cents Per Bushel # Fed
To the Hogs

price of all feedstuffs have made hog
feeding for profit problem. Farmers
have been able to realize good prices
for their grains and other farm pro-
ducts. Hence, hog feeding has been
neglected. The old method of allowing
the hogs to run in the timber and live
on acorns and nuts until they matured,
at two years, will not suffice any longer.
With increasing high prices for feeds,
scientific feeding becomes more neces-
sary. The question, what shall feed
to get the best grains at the lowest
cost, confronts every hog feeder today.
Pasturage. combinations of grains that
give best results must be used. Ex-
perimentation has solved in part the
problem of how to get the greatest
amount of pork at least cost.
Corn is the mainstay of the pork pro-
ducer. It holds first place as the
principal grain for fattening any kind
of live stock. AS cheap feed for
fattening stock, corn is without peer.
No one doubts that matured animals
make more rapid gains from corn than
any other single cereal. It. takes 10
bushels of corn for every 100 pounds of
gain in pork under ordinary farm con-
ditions. In q great many cases this
grain is not realized. Under ideal con-
ditions much greater gains can be
made. Hogs at 5 cents per pound will
give return of SO cents per bushel for
corn consumed. 1t is too fattening for
young pigs. It does not encourage
enough growth of bone and muscle.
Various opinions are held regarding
this universal hog feed. Is the feeding
value the same whether fed whole,
shelled, ground or in combination with
other feeds? Some very interesting
and valuable results have been deter
mined by experiment. The average
result from several trials with shelled
corn against ground corn, or corn meal.
Five hundred and thirty two pounds of
corn meal gave 100 pounds Of gain in
pork, while 543 pounds Of whole corn
were required for 100 pounds gain. A
saving of 2 per cent, or IL pounds of
corn, was realized on every 100 pounds
of pork by grinding the corn.
Other trials using whole corn and
wheat middlings and corn meal and
n1iddlings were made. 1t took 459
pounds of corn meal and wheat mid
d]ings and 499 pounds of whole corn and
middlings for each 100 pounds gain.
This shows an per cent saving in
favor Of grinding the corn. Corn and
cob ground together against corn meal,
when fed, shows slight saving in IA
vor of the corn and cob meal. Practi-
cal experience favors grinding the
whole ear for feeding hogs or any
animals. It gives bulkier ration,
which aids digestion. Frequently a
small quantity of oil meal is added to
give palatibility. In this way the
entire ear is consumed.
Wheat is greatly superior to corn as
feed for young hogs. It is q better
builder of bone and muscle. y For fat
tening, it is almost equal, pound for
pound, to corn. In q number of tests
with wheat and corn meal, the average
result was six pounds more corn meal
3 to make 100 pounds Of pork than wheat.
The price per bushel Of each would
i govern the advisability of feeding
wheat or corn. By combining equal
4 parts Of wheat and corn better results
are obtained than by feeding either
grain separately. A saving Of 8 pei
cent is realized by feeding the combina.
tion. Combinations Of any feedstuffs
make better gains. With corn and
wheat middlings, each fed. separately,
4 there was 4 difference ii favor Of the
! middlings at the ratio of 1O8 to 100.
A combination Of the two proved to be
20 per cent more economical than mid,
dlings wheat bran and wheat midd ddlings,
milk and middlings as one ration and
bran and skim milk as the other. After
ne days Of, feeding, the lot fed skim
II milk and middlings had gained Il(
& pounds. The other lot showed y gain
Of only 81 pounds. II IS evident that
middlings are twice % valuable, pound
for pound, g wheat bran. Other trials
with corn and wheat bran gave simila,
# results. Wheat bran carries too much
fbrous mat erial and : high per cent q
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have shown that barley fed alone pro,
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