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Show CORN NOT THE ONLY THINS With corn plentiful and cheap farmers In tho oorn belt will not bo easily Interested in nny other kind of feed for fattonlng hogs nnd cattle, bu as the price of corn as it stands today and with thcprobabillty that It will steadily ddvanco in tho future, it Is only the part of wisdom and good management for farmers to study the value of other grain for feeding Tn mnny countries whero corn cannot can-not bo raised the finest pork and beef aro produced from barley, other grain and roots In Denmark', for Instance whero the finest bacon In the world 13 made, farmers feed their hogs entirely on barley. Frequently In this country the price of barley becomes very low when tho malting demand is oversupplied and It is then that the shrowd farmer can supplant corn with this grain and sell his corn to' better advantage than by feeding It. Farmers in tho ' northwest whoro barley is grown to a large extent are becoming moro interested in this g tin and the Experiment Stations up there have dono soma cxccllont work in proving its valuo aa, compared with corn- An experiment began by the North Dakota station four years ago to show tho valuo of barloy as compared with corn for fattening hogs, has produced some very valuablo and interesting results ' A dozen cight-month-old pigs wero divided into two lots of six each. The animals In each lot wero uniform in size, thrift and general condition. The average weight of each lot was at the beginning of tho experiment, practically prac-tically Identical 127 pounds. Thoso In lot one wero fed a ration composed of four parts ground barley, and ono part of shorts by weight The pigs in lot two woro given four parts of ground corn and ono .part of shorts. The pigs were fed for a period of 83 days, the grain being soaked In water and fed In the, form of a thick slop. Tho feeding value of a pound of corn proved to be IS per cent, greater than a pound of barley, but much ot the barley was Inferior In quality and If it would havo been good, sound grain, might havo mado a bettor ' showing. The difference In price of ! about seven cents per bushel between barley and corn must also be taken Into consideration. Tho Wisconsin Station which has a tino reputation for careful feeding Investigations, In-vestigations, somo years ago mado a test between corn nnd barley and reported re-ported that tho valuo of corn was only eight per cent, greater than that of barloy. Tho barley was figured at IS cents a bushel, corn at 5? cents and shorts at $1-1.00 per ton. Tho hogs In this test .sold at $6.20 per . hundred, the barley fed hogs netting' a profit of 51.00 per hundred pounds and tho corn fed hogs netted ?1.80. In this test tho prico of barley at ! 48 cents was too high as that was the j regular price for best grado malting I barley whllo the averago prlco of t common barley was 37 cents per bushel. Taking theso figures it would havo been cheaper to feed barley and sell corn. ' Investigations that these two Stations Sta-tions havo mado shows that barloy I makes moro lean meat than corn. Qf't course corn is tho greatest fattonor In c tho world -ft hen fed to hogs, but a c better grade of bacon can bo produced by feeding barloy than corn. When hogs nro fed for weight alone r thoro is no doubt that corn has tho a slightest advantage, but where bacon a is produced for tho best special markets barley will turn out th6 best v product Tho result of tho two experf- b ments show. That it requlrod IS per cent more t barley by weight than corn tp pro- ii dueo tho snmo gain In feeding pigs c when both grains wero fed in thjo proportion pro-portion of four parts of grain. to one tl of shorts by weight n That it is profitable to food baclcy a to hogs If pork Is selling at an aver- d ago price. That tho carcasses of the pigs fed '' barloy and shorts showed a greater a distribution of lean and firmer flesh Ir than tho carcasses of pigs fed corn l' and 3horts. rr That pigs fed on corn and shorts will dress a higher per cent than pigs c fed on barley and shorts, oi |