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Show I Chickens Top Wheat Eaters 1 V ; ; SYlNE yK i ?9l. ! (Setirs-Koebuck Agricultural Fuunduiion) Wheat and flour are synonymous in the minds of many. As a matter of fact, however, forty per cent of our mammoth wheat crop never leaves the farm at all, but Is used for seed purposes and feeding farm animals, states the Sears-Roebuck Agricultural Foundation lu a survey recently completed com-pleted on wheat consumption. It is used most abundantly for feeding In those sections of the country having a wheat surplus and a shortage of the usual feed crops sueli as corn, oats and barley. The poorer qualities of wheat, not suited for making Hour, are kept behind for this purpose. Chickens are the heaviest consumers consum-ers of wheat fed on the farm using 59.1 of all wheat so distributed. Swine are next, with 29.1. In wheat-growing sections horses are fed wheat and consume on an average ; 5.47c of all wheat fed on the farm, i while the remaining 6.4 goes to 1 cattle. |