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Show CORN, OATS, WHEAT FOR FEED Interesting Experiment at Wisconsin Experiment Station With Three Lots of Heifers. In nn experiment nt the Wisconsin experiment slutlon three lots of heifers heif-ers weighing nbout ."'.."(O pounds were fed equal amounts of nutrients. For one lot the nutrients were wholly from the wheat plant, another from oats and the third from corn. All lots grew at about a normal rate, but after a few months It becume easily observable Unit the wheat lot wus not so well nourished as tbe others. This was evident evi-dent from the appearance of the coat. The corn and oat-fed lots bred curlier (hail the wheat fed one, showing that the latter were depressed In some degree. de-gree. The corn-fed lot produced calves which were of normal size und full of vigor. The ont-fed lot produced calves, which were of ubout normal size but with very low vigor, while those from the wheut lot were ubout half us large ns the norinnl culf at birth and were dead or ready to die when born. When half of the roughage of the wheat lot WUS replaced with alfalfa buy the waives were normal. No reasons have yet been worked out as to why these foods should act so differently but It Is lmportuut to know how they affect animals. |