[AT] Some ads from the 7/8/05 Lancaster Farming

[Michael Miller]

Mike,

For what its worth, I worked in a feed mill my senior year in high school.  
While Speltz is a type of wheat, it is harvested for feed similar to oats, 
it is not shelled all the way out.  In our local area of North Central Ohio, 
we have a hard time growing good heavy oats.  Most people who plant speltz 
use it in cow feed but I have seen some amish who use speltz for horse feed. 
   THe main reason is it is cheaper than good heavy horse oats.  It also 
yields higher in our area.  From what I remember, they are roughly the same 
nutrient wise as oats as we replaced them pound for pound if they wanted 
speltz, I think.

Mike


>From: Mike Sloane <mikesloane at verizon.net>
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>Date: Sat, 08 Jul 2006 18:38:57 -0400


>Spelt for horses, $7 @ 100 lbs, $140 a ton, dry sudan grass for bedding, $2 
>a bale. Lanc. Co. 717-445-7422. [I had to look that one up - spelt: A hardy 
>wheat grown mostly in Europe. Middle English, from Old English, from Late 
>Latin spelta, probably of Germanic origin; akin to Middle Dutch spelte, 
>wheat. I learned something new that most of you probably already knew.]
>Mike Sloane
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