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Show Not Good Policy to Grind Feeds North Carolina Expert Is Emphatic on Matter of Roughage. It is not necessary to grind the roughages ordinarily used for live stock feed, and certainly It Is poor economy to do so with all feeds as low in price as they are now. "We have come in contact recently with much misleading propaganda In regard to the advantages of grinding feeds for live stock," says L. I. Case, animal husbandryman at North Carolina Caro-lina State college. "Some of this material ma-terial is finding its way Into the agricultural agri-cultural press and much of it is being be-ing disseminated by salesmen of feed grinding mills who of course are Interested In-terested in selling their product. I recently re-cently overheard a salesman who was giving a demonstration of his machine ma-chine say that the grinding of corn stover would make it 100 per cent digestible. di-gestible. Such a statement Is ridiculous ridicu-lous on Its face, because corn stover at best Is only about 50 per cent digestible di-gestible and no amount of grinding will make it any more so." Mr. Case says no hard and fast rules may be laid down for every farm but generally speaking It does not pay to grind roughage. He says that live stock men engaged in research at the experiment stations of the United States Department of Agriculture are about 100 per cent in agreement on this. In feeding beef cattle where hogs are to follow the beeves, It does not pay even to grind corn. Old feeders know this by experience and the majority of them feed broken ear corn or shelled corn, says Mr. Case. About the same thing is true In feeding corn to hogs. Numerous feeding trials prove conclusively conclu-sively that there is little saving in feeding ground' corn to hogs in place of ear corn or shelled corn. |