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VERMONT DAIRYMEN S REPORT. 



It is frequently asked which are the cheapest and best 

 grain feeds for our animals. This cannot be answered directly, 

 for the reason that market prices are likely to vary widely and 

 what may be cheap feed to-day, might be expensive feed to- 

 morrow. A short crop of corn would make corn meal and the 

 gluten products high in price, while a large wheat crop would 

 mean low prices for bran, middlings and mixed wheat feeds.* 



The writer regards the gluten products as among the best 

 and safest foods for milk production. Cotton seed and linseed 

 meals are also good. Wheat products are quite desirable but 

 are likely to be relatively high in price. The same can be said 

 of ready mixed feeds. Oat feeds — the refuse from oatmeal 

 mills — containing from 40 to 50 per cent of hulls, are also re- 

 latively expensive. In order to help the farmer in ascertain- 

 ing the relative commercial values of the numerous feeds the 

 following key is presented : 



KEY TO COMPARATIVE VALUES OF CONCENTRATED FEEDS. 



Starchy 



(carbohydrate) 



feeds. 



Protein feeds. 



Com meal, 



Hominy meal or chop, 



Cerealine feed, 



Chop feed, 



Quaker oat feed, 



Oat feeds (excessive hulls), 



Victor corn and oat feed, 



H. O. horse feed, 



Wheat bran, 



Wheat middlings, 



Mixed feed, 



Dried brewers' grains, 



Malt-sprouts, 



H. O. dairy feed, 



Buffalo and Golden gluten feeds, 



Other gluten feeds, 



Gluten meals, 



Cleveland flax meal, 



O. P. linseed meals, 



Cotton seed meal, 



100 

 100 

 100 

 80 :f 

 85 

 75 

 95 

 95 



85 

 100-1101 

 90-95J 

 100 

 100 

 103 

 125 

 120 

 152 

 138 

 135 

 152 



The above feedstuffs are divided into starchy and protein 

 feeds. The former are purchased primarily to increase the 

 digestible matter in the daily ration, while the latter are bought 

 not alone to give more digestible material but to increase the 

 protein in the ration fed to the animal. 



HOW TO USE THE KEY. 



It is not possible in this connection to show the relative 

 effects of the various feed stuffs on the flow of milk or the pro- 



•About 1600 pounds bran and 400 pounds fine middlings. 



tF.stimated but not actually determined. 



JThe no value refers to fine ligbt colored middlings with 19 per cent protein. 



