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Title: Live stock : a cyclopedia for the farmer and stock owner including the breeding, care, feeding and management of horses, cattle, swine, sheep and poultry with a special department on dairying : being also a complete stock doctor : with one thousand explanatory engravings
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Baker, A. H. (Austin Hart), 1852-
Subjects: Livestock Veterinary medicine
Publisher: Kansas City, Mo. : Intercollegiate Press
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ch a large variety of grains and forage plants can begrown. In corn-growing sections there is a disposition to feed corn almost ex-chisively on account of its cheapness, its fattening qualities, and the relishwith which it is eaten. While in many sections we can not grow cornsuccessfully as a grain crop, we can grow a long list of other cereals, suchas oats, barley, wheat, millet and rye; and we can grow them cheaplywith very little danger of failure. As no artificial fertilizer is needed togrow these crops in the Northwest, the cost of production is low enoughto make them cheap stock foods. A mixture of chopped wheat, oats, andshorts will give better results than a single grain of any sort, not exceptingcorn. A mixture of this kind is usually cheaper than wheat alone, andwill produce better gains. Chopped oats should not be fed alone. Thehulls interfere verv^ materially with its value as food for hogs. They donot enjoy the hulls, and will refuse to eat the oats quicker than any other
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THE FEEDING AND SHELTERING OF SWINE. 97(7 grain except bran, which they do not relish, principally for the samereason. Chopped bailey and shorts make a good combination for feeding.A small amount of bran can be used to good advantage when mixed withother grains. Shorts alone will not furnish mineral matter enough forgrowing pigs. XVII. Grain Should be Ground. Small grain should be crushed or ground for hogs. When fed wholethere is less gain to amount of food consumed, and the total gain in agiven time will be less. It is a too common practice among farmers inthis section to follow slovenly methods in feeding stock. Instead ofgetting a few feet of cheap lumber for a floor on which to feed, or makinga few troughs, whole grain is strewn on the ground for the hogs to gatherup as best they may. Often the rainy season begins before the hogs aresold; then the feed yard becomes a slough of mud, out of which the ani-mals work very assiduously to gather their daily food. This may be anextreme p

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