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Show Uucku lii'Ht for Stock, An inquirer asks if buckwheat is good for stock. That depends. Tor the feathered stock most emphatically yes. For cattlo and hogs not always, rarely for tho latter. Tho hull of tho buckwheat is not digestible, and hence is not fit for food. Tho bran or the buckwheat when run through the mill should havo the hulls t.ikon out Tho hulls will catiso piles in pigs. Hulls are valuable to use us nbsorbants in tho man uro pile, but not otherwise. The colored part of tho grain, tho yellow yel-low part next to the hull, is rich in nitrogen, and is excellent for making growth in animals. This canaille will mako plenty of milk, but it will bo short 111 butter fat, and the fats will be soft and white. Buckwheat will make poor butter. It should be mixed with yellow corn meal with some bran to make tho food healthier, or to make tho required ; waste material. The canailto is a concentrated food too much so, too, to be fed alone. Tho white part of tho kernel Is the starch, and this makes the white floor. Buckwheat Buck-wheat canaillo is good food for nil young animals if mixed half and half with bran a littlo linseed meal added will improve the ration. For fattening fatten-ing n grown animal add corn meal. |
