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Show HOGS ARE HEAVIEST CONSUMERS OF GRAIN Horses Are Placed Second by Bureau of Crop Estimates. Mill Feed Is Especially for Cattle and Swine, Which Together Con- sume 86 Per Cent Little Forage Eaten by Sheep. (Prepared by the United States Department Depart-ment of Agriculture.) The various proportions of the crops that are fed to the different classes of domestic animals on farms in this country have been determined by the bureau of crop estimates with Interesting Inter-esting results. Corn, of course, is fed to hogs much more than to any other class of animals 50 per cent to them, or fully one-half of the quantity fed to all animals. Horses eat 24 per cent, cattle 19 per cent and poultry 5 per cent. Horses are the chief eaters of oats, their share being 68 per cent, that cf cattle 13 per cent, of hogs 11 per cent and of poultry 6 per cent. Barley is chiefly eaten by hogs, whose consumption consump-tion is 60 per cent of the quantity eaten by all animals, while horses eat 18 per cent, cattle 12 per cent, and poultry 11 per cent. Of the small fraction of the wheat crop fed to animals, ani-mals, poultry gets 59 per cent and hogs 29 per cent. Nearly all the hay goes to cattle and horses, 51 and 45 per cent, respectively. Rye has been fed to animals as well as used for bread, and more than one-half one-half of this feed has gone to hogs, one-quarter one-quarter to horses, and one-seventh to poultry. Nearly all the silage Is eaten by cattle, and a little is consumed by hogs, horses, sheep, and even by poultry. poul-try. Mill feed is especially for cattle snd swine, which together consume 86 per cent of the whole quantity that is ted, in about equal proportions. The figures of the bureau indicate that hogs are the principal grain eaters, eat-ers, horses a close second, cattle third, poultry fourth, and that sheep consume con-sume a mere trace. Cattle ce the greatest forage eaters, and they and horses consume the bulk of it, so that little is eaten by sheep and swine, as fractions of the total consumption by animals. |
