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Show DAMAGED WHEAT FOR SWINE Greater Gains Obtained in Tests in Feeding It Alone Than With Corn in Fattening Hogs. ' .The grade and market price of part of the 1915 wheat crop has been bo much reduced bysprouting in the shock that it is not too high for hog feed. Recent feeding tests by L. A. Weaver at the Missouri experiment station have shown that wheat fed alone gives grealer gains in fattenings hogs than either corn alone or corn mixed with whert. The addition of tankage to the raticn resulted in still more economical econom-ical gains, especially during the early part of the feeding period, f If ground, the wheat is better digested digest-ed and three pecks produce as much grain as a bushel of uhground wheat, both being soaked. |