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Show Gluten Unsatisfactory as a Corn Supplement Corn gluten meal alone is not a satisfactory supplement to corn for fattening pigs in a dry lot, tests -with choice uniform pigs at the Kansas agricultural experiment station at Manhattan Indicate. One group of shoats was fed corn and alfalfa hay in a self-feeder and 4 rounds of tankage per head, hand fed once a day. A second sec-ond group was fed corn and alfalfa alfal-fa hay in a self-feeder just as in the first group, but received .6 pounds of corn gluten meal per head once per day, thus differing from the first group in its protein supplement The pigs receiving tankage gained 1.16 pounds per head per day. Those receiving corn gluten meal gained only .5 pounds. The pigs receiving tankage required 383.55 pounds of corn to produce 100 pounds of gain. Those receiving receiv-ing corn gluten meal required 609.06 pounds. Where the tankage was fed, cost of gains was $6.62 per 100, and where the corn gluten meal was fed the cost was $10.65 per 100. The pigs receiving tankage required re-quired less than half as much alfalfa al-falfa hay per 100 pounds gain as those fed corn gluten meal. The results secured in these tests indicate indi-cate that corn gluten meal alone is not a satisfactory supplement to corn for fattening pigs in a dry lot from the standpoint of daily gains, finish, and cost of gains. |