FOOD VALUE OF OATS
EVIDENCE OF ENGLISH TRIALS,
Dr. Woodman, or Cambridge, has lately completed the results of experiments recently made to determine the value of oats as a pig food. The results are Interesting and of great value to farmers who grow oats. Although the digestion trials proved barley meal to be superior food to ground oats, the feeding trials, carried out on a commercial scale, both in summer and winter, showed that barley meal can be replaced by farm-ground oats, round for pound, without, any loss in the live weight, increase or the economy of food conversion. In one ration 40 per cent of ground oats was used with 2b per cent, barley meats 2b per cent middlings and 10 pci cent fish-meal. __
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Waikato Times, Volume 113, Issue 18851, 23 January 1933, Page 5
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