Tuesday, October 2, 1923
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THE HEPPNER HERALD, HEPPNER, OREGON
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SELLING WHEAT
TO LIVESTOCK
(Continued from page one)
Bouri, Kansas and Nebraska experi
ment stations.
(Jufcker Gains for Hints
The experiment station of the Uni
versity of Missouri conducted two
trials comparing ground wheat with
corn aB a feed for hogs," stated Prof.
L. A. Weaver, of the animal hus
bandry department of that institu
tion. "The hogs fed wheat made
more rapid gains that did those fed
corn, gaining on an average 1.2 5
pounds a day for 120 days, whereas
the hogs fed corn gained one pound
daily. Each 4 83 pounds of wheat
produced 100 pounds of pork, where-!
as it took 582 pounds of corn. Willi
corn worth eighty-five cents a bushel,
wheat fed in this way was worth
tl.11. An equal mixture of wheat
and corn fed to the hogs required
thirty-five more pounds of grain than
where wheat alone was used, but the
mixture was more efficient than coi n
alone.
"A ration of wheat, ten purls, and
tankage, one part, produced gains
more rapidly than wheat alone. The
hogs fed wheat and tankage weighed
272 pounds at the end of the feeding
period, having put on 1.52 pounds
daily. Each 4.fi!) pounds of wheat
and tankage produced one pound of
of pork, as compared with 4.8!!
pounds of -wheat, alone. The value
of the tankage was most Important
In the first seventy-eight days, and
during that time, with wheat worth
one dollar a bushel, tankage could
have been fed with profit if pur
chased nt sixtv dollars a ton. But
In the last forty-two days of the f 1
Ing period tankage was worth less
than half that amount. So It might
be profitable to decrease it to one
to sixteen or twenty parts of wheat
1 ntho last third of the feeding sea-
noil."
Professor Weaver suggests wheat
be ground and fed wet. If fed whole
tt Is better soaked than fed dry, to
make it more easily masticated. He
Bulls at the Nebraska experiment sta
tion confirm tlilH suggestion. Soaked
whole wheat was compared with
soaked ground wheat. Three pounds
of the latter gave as much gain as
four pounds of I lie soaked whole
wheat and produced gains at a 1
per cent faster rate. At a cost of
four cents a bushel for grinding. It
was estimated that (lie net profit or
feeding ground wheat over whide
wheat was twenty-one cents a hush
el. Hack in the prewar days a fat
larger number of hogs were raised
In the Intel-mountain section than at
any time since, and must of them
were finished on wheat." declared
Ceu'rte Frederic Straiten, of Salt
Lake City, one of the best informed
agricultural authorities In that re
gion. "Wheat prieeB then ranged
from forty-seven cents to ninety-two
cents, and it was cheaper and more
plentiful than corn. Farmers, ac
cordingly, found hotter money in
making pork than in selling wheat.
But wartime high prices made feed
ing wheat to hogs a crime, and hog
production dropped to only 2 5 per
cent of the demand for local con
sumption. A few men here and then
have never gone out of hogs, and
they're better off as a result. One
of them is R. G. Price, of Gannett,
Idaho, who has continued to finish
300 to 500 hogs each year, and or
wheat. He pastures the young stuff
on alfalfa with a little grain ration
runs them on his wheat stubble in
the fall and finishes them in drylots
on wheat and barley. Never except
in the two-fifty-price days, lias he
sold any wheat. And his financial
standing today contrasts very sharp
ly with many wlieat-for-tlie-inarket
raisers."
Good Result Willi Lambs
That same comment is made by
E. L. Potter, professor of animal
husbandry, Oregon Agricultural col
lege, Corvallis.
"Prior to about 1012 the wheat
price in Oregon was no higher than
other grains, with the result th
wheat was almost the universal hog
feed in the Northwest," he1 ,s;ii
"Then came a series of years when
the wheat price rose above that of
other grains. It was used less and
less for feeding purposes until todav
many farmers have forgotten Its
feeding ulue. Our experiments in
dicate Mint wheat as a hog feed is
very similar to corn or barley."
"Though wKeat contains more pro
tein than corn it must be supple
merited by some protein feeds, such
as skim milk, buttermilk, alfalfa
pasture, fish meal or tankage, if the
animals are to make (lie maximum
growth. It makes a very satisfactory
feed for fattening lambs, as was
shown by a test at the Hermlstbn
branch experiment station last year,
In which lambs, fed one pound of
wheat a day and all the alfalfa they
would eat, made an average dai'y
gain of one-third of a pound. This
was practically the same gain as
oilier lots fed oats and barley and
only .015 less than I lie gain made by
a corn-fed lot. On the basis of feed
required for 100 pounds of gain,
where barley was worth $1:5 a ton,
wheat was worth $3-1.1(1, oats $35.52
and corn $38. 0-1 a ton.
"For cuttle and burses wheat has
' proved a nutritious feed, but sinro
jit is very concentrated, low ill fibre
and inclined to swell when nioist-
eiyd, it should be ted to such live
'stock with some care. It should he
niKod with some other feed contain
, ing more fibre, and it should not he
fed ill large quanti'ies when ani
nulls are not used to It."
Oregon farmers have been ship
ping ill large quantities of corn and
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We can feed and clothe the whole
family from soup to nuts and
from hats to shoes
See our line of
Suits d Overcoats
oats from the East and barley from
California. With a surplus of wheat
at comparatively low prices, Profes
sor Potter believes that wheat should
replace this Imported grain, thus
helping out both the Oregon wheat
and livestock growers.
"We urgently recommend all pur
chasers of feed to consider wheat in
i preference to the imported grains,"
he stated. "We do not, however,
recommend any attempt to increase
our feeding operations with a view
to taking care of the wheat crop be
yond the substitution of wheat for
the imported grain we are now
Ing. Such an expansion of livestock
feeding would involve the risk of
demoralizing the. Northwest market."
That same rpactical angle is pre
sented by Prof. W. I. Loeffel, of the
animal husbandry department of th
University of Nebraska, who sai
"Western Nebraska hog raisers
have the alternative of feeding wheat
or selling it on the basis of the
Omaha price , plus freight. In the
latter case a sixty-pound bushel of
wheat right now will not buy a fifty-six-pound
bushel of corn. Whether
or not it will be profitable to feed
wheat in place of corn, time alone
will tell, since the market prices of
wheat, corn and hogs will decide
this question. But certainly the man
with a bunch of pigs on his hands is
justified in feeding wheat if his own
wheat, is selling at a discount and
he is paying a premium for corn."
I'eeding Ixtw-tirade Wheat
For sheep and cattle feeding there
is quite a lot of evidence bearing or.
thf value of wheat. The Montana
experiment station tried lambs on
wheat and red clover hay. Twenty
two black-faced lambs, weighing an
average of seventy pounds apiece at
the beginning of the nine-five-day
feeding test, gained 25.34 pounds, or
a little over a quarter of a pound a
day a good average gain. The lambs
consumed an average of .81 pounds
of wheat and 2.04 pounds of hay a
day. Reckoning the cost of wheat at
eighty cents a bushel and hay at
eight dollars a ton in the stack tin
feeding cost of each lamb was close
to two dollars.
The Southwest Wheat Growers'
conference held at Wichita, Kansas,
din ing the summer to consider ways
of remedying the wheat situation,
adopted this resolution: "Wheat,
especially of the lower grades, will
take the place of corn as a stock feed
at a substantial s;rving and will also
hold part of the damaged grain off
tin! market."
Commenting on this E. H.'Leker,
county agent of Leavenworth county,
Kansas, said, "Reports from the
Kansas City market show that about
one-third of the wheat coming to
that market grades aB No. 4, N
and sample grade. These grades are
in poor demand for milling and usu
ally sell several cents a bushel un
der the better grades. This poor
quality of wheat should by all means
be utilized for feeding."
I Tin. evnei-inw.tit t.,titi-i 0,n
Kansas Stale Agricultural college
has on record an interesting test to
back up that recommendation.
Shrunken wheat was fed to hogs. The
market price for shrunken wheat
was at a big discount from the well
matured grain, whereas its feeding
value, on account of the greater pro
tein content, was higher. Fifty pius
that had been farrowed in May and
been running on alfalfa pasture were
put on the lest September fifteenth.
They were divided into five lots. One
of these lots was given whole wheat
and tankage, fed separately in n
self-feeder; another lot. ground
wheat and tankage, self fed, free
choice; a third lot, ground wheat,
self fed; a fourth, an equal mixture
of ground wheat and ground rye,
self fed; and the last lot ground corn
and tankage, fed separately in a self
feeder. The lot fed whole wheat and tank
age made the best gain, and all those
receiving a wheat ration did better
j than the pigs fed corn, though the
j largest quantity of tankage went
j with the corn ration. In this test j
1390.06 pounds of whole wheat and
j 17.85 of tankage were required to
! put on 100 pounds of pork. No ad
vantage was found in grinding the
badly shrunken wheat. In this test
the use. of tankage was an economy,
its addition saving about ninety
rents on 100 pounds gain. The ex
periment led the station to make
this conclusion: "Feeding shrunken
wheat may often prove more satis
factory than nturkonng it as grain
at a big discount. Certainly hogs
can make bigger returns from wheat
than from corn, and when prices of
the two grains are nearly equal aeon
e:nv in feeding will urge the substi-j
tutum of wheat for corn."
lest When Coarsely 1. route!
TT,..,v,,r , aVoj,i misleading any- j
suits when ground.
"Coarse grinding has proved the
most satisfactory method of prepara
tion, producing considerably more
economical gains than whoba wheat,"
Professor Loeffel says. "Fine grind
ing is to be avoided, since finely
ground wheat is not very palatable,
due to its becoming sticky or pasty
in the animal's mouth. The soaking
of ground wheat has increased its
feeding value slightly, although the
increase was so slight that it did not
pay the cost of soaking. A consider
able saving of labor can be effected
by self-feeding the ground wheat."
How extensive will be the divers
ionof wheat of feed use cannot be
forecast, but nearly every man ques
tioned told of unusual interest being
displayed. "More wheat will be fed
in this county than ever before,"
said Ford S. Prince, county agent of
Green county, Ohio. "A good many
who ran out of corn have been using
weo'.-.t! to tide them over till the new
crop comes in. Farmers with poul
try are using it More heavily too."
In Maryland, where wheat is usual
ly the second-best money crop in the
state, farmers are grinding their
wheat and feeding it to dairy cows
to replace bought feed that would
cost fifty-two dollars a ton. They
are finding ground wheat and cotton
seed meal a good ration.
"A neighbor of mine has stacked
his wheat and will f.eed it all to his
poultry," stated Hiram H. Shepard,
of Pacific, Missouri. "Counting off
the cost of threshing and hauling to
market, he figures he will have at
home the best of poultry grain feed
at about one dollar a hundred
pounds, against three dollars for
commercial prepared mixtures or
two dollars and fifty cents for crack
ed corn."
In linn with the experiments and
experiences mentioned is the view of
E. W. Sheets, acting chief, Animal
Husbandry Division of the Bureau of
Animal Industry, United States De
partment of Agriculture. When corn
is worth sevjenty-five cents, he fig
ures wheat worth seventy-nine cents
for feeding to hogs and eighty-six
for cattle feeding. With corn at one
dollar he puts wheat at one dollar
and five cents for hogs and one dol
lar and fifteen cents for cattle. He
believes the present situation offers
a good opportunity for farmers with
wheat to buy young feeder cattle.
"The beef outloo'k seems pretty
clear," he stated. "Cheap wheat can
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Held off of heavy grain feeding un
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that are in fair proportion to prices
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Sophmore President, C h a rles
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secretary, Anita Hughes; treasurer,
Jim Thomson.
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tary, Violet Hynd; treasurer, Dorothy
Anderson.
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