Vermont Agbicultubai, Repoht. gl 



CONCERNING SOME OF THE NEWER FEEDING 



STUFFS. 



BY DR. JOSKPH L. HILLS, VERMONT EXPERIMENT STATION. 



The dairy husbandmen of New England are well acquainted 

 with the appearance, nature and value of the standard con- 

 centrates, such as the ordinary wheat offals, corn meal, oats, cot- 

 tonseed meal and the gluten meals and feeds. During the last 

 ten or dozen years, however, other candidates for favor have 

 been offered in increasing numbers, many of which have now 

 fairly well recognized places in stock feeding usage. Several 

 of these, however, are comparatively new and the methods of 

 their manufacture are but little understood by consumers. It 

 seems worth while, therefore,, briefly to outline some points as 

 to their nature and usefulness. No attempt is made to cover 

 the subject thoroughly; nor is the order of statement any indi- 

 cation of relative merit. The good and the bad, those which 

 are deemed advisable to use and those which are held to have 

 but slight merit are alike included. 



OIL MILL BYPRODUCTS. 



Cottonseed Feed. Cottonseed meal has long been a stand- 

 ard concentrate. Cottonseed feed is a newer comer. It has not, 

 however, proved to be an economical feeding stuff in New Eng- 

 land. It is simply a cottonseed meal into which is mixed 

 greater or less amounts of finely ground cottonseed hulls. Cot- 

 tonseed meal should carry 40 percent and upwards of protein. 

 Cottonseed hulls carry at the best not more than a tenth of this 

 amount and the digestibility of even this small percentage is 

 slight. This feed is offered at a price lower than that at which 

 cottonseed meal is sold at and thus is apt to tempt the unwary. 

 It is stated that it is sometimes artificially dyed yellow the better 

 to deceive the buyer. Its identity may be easily determined by 

 anyone through the use of the so-called "water cure" test as 

 published in bulletin loi of the Vermont Station. Cottonseed 

 feed at ruling prices is a good thing for New England feeders to 

 let alone. 



GLUCOSE BYPRODUCTS. 



Germ Oil Meal and Sugar Feed (Corn Bran). The usual 

 concentrates which the glucose industry affords are the gluten 



