Show EFFICIENT FEEDING AND LIVESTOCK 6 management by dr canny bohstedt Bohi emeritus professor of animal Hadi andry university 1 sidn corn cobs provide better profits and leaner pork the practice of leading feeding corn coin on am the do cob began generations genera tiona W CO when 91 binding rinding rin ding e equipment q ament waa ss aurl completely lacking w or was not rotted for ir grinding ear corn com finely enough for hom hogs espe dally for wio crowing ples piss As moot hoc grower who have hav led fed torn corn on an the cob know corn com cobs customarily have beeri been pushed ashod oft off the ih feakins son floor to 10 to WIN arfa whom when tm valuable feed Is not lost slum since those days day how bow ever many experiment and farm dr D bohstedt Bah bo ob no have hav hown that fibrous feeds aae oat hulls corn cobs coba and the hie 16 have substantial Bub value for wine swine as aa well as an lor fox the ruminants mid and horses borses jt Is in WIS wisconsin COndu pig idge were wen led fed from weaning to market on ground ear oom corn in a balanced ration thel they gained just about as well as an those ose fed shelled belled torn corn or ground sheil shelled led corn but at lower cost grinding ear corn through si a hammer will null equipped with a inch screen proved somewhat better than using a 14 inch screen the 14 inch screen would be perfectly all tight right fo for I 1 grinding ear corn for brood sows bows however in trials conducted by the S DA and the michigan and wisconsin experiment stations ground coba or ground ear corn la in rations of feeder pigs re resulted suit in higher pereen percentages of loan lean cuts cut at lower feed costs 1 per 1 pound of gain than pip pigs IX fed a normal corn ration wisconsin Wi Konsin experiments last tag ing eight years and involving cattle sheep horse lid swine showed that oat gat null mill feed essentially oat hulls bulls when snail fiig up 15 5 to 20 20 percent or more of uio the rations W was worth fully half as much as corn gram oat hulls bulls and corn cobs have bout about the same composition so BO it ft la is not hot surprising that results with ground 4 corn com cobs coba have been about 1 the some same as with oat hulls the corn cobs cob should not be wa wasted I 1 r while ordinarily we associate high fiber bulky rations with ruminants the experimental work cited shows shown we must grant that growing pigs i can make good use of SUCK such f feed materials as corn cobs alfalfa or otherl other good hay a and even other fibrous feeds it t must musk of cou cobrae be I 1 gro ground d reasonably fine and I 1 i mixed ed with the grain ity v where growing pip pigs can eco i comically no utilize such rough 14 age brood sows bows are all the more equipped to do so no and in much I 1 I 1 larger amounts am I 1 questions ont we concerned are now about sufficient suM clent carotene or vitamin A in our winter rai ra tion for cattle and other rumi nanto which is richer in carotene hay bay or adage answers it has been found that under comparable conditions the rate of carotene destruction during storage is only about half as mat great in silage as in hay |