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Show Hogs Get Barley Diet j CATTLE HORSES 119 17.1 Jo s I POULTRy 10.5 . I MISCELLMtOUS 9.0 To 1 I HOGS 50.9 gf5j (8UTi-Ki!biik AitrlruKurul Foundation) Approximately ,r.U,(XK ),( K) bushels of barley will be fed to farm niilniiilH In the United States this year if the present crop outlook. Ik fill tilled. Of this amount a trille over iine-liii'.f, or 50.0, according to the figures compiled com-piled by the Seais-ltoeluicli Agricultural Agricul-tural Foundation, Is consumed by hogs. Next to tlieni, horses eat the most barley, or 17.7 of all barley fed to farm animals. Then U.!i- Is fed to cattle, mostly to dairy rows In the form of barley chop. Kami poultry (locks get away with anollier 10.5, leuvlng 0, to be fed to sheep and used for miscellaneous feed purposes. Hurley Is (lie chief competitor of corn as livestock feed and Is especially Important In the northern corn belt and I'acille coast stales, according to the Foundation's experts. . |