FOURTH ANNUAL YEAR BOOK — PART V. 247 



Bran contains 121 ■_- per cent of protein and has a nutritive ration 

 of 1 to 3 to 7. The proper balance for the dairy cow is 5,1/2 to 6. Bran 

 as a nutritive ration alone is too narrow. Taken on that as basis, bran 

 is a good thing to add when corn, rye, wheat or barley or any feed stuff 

 is employed. Shorts are very similar to bran, but shorts are much bet- 

 ter for swine feed than f6r dairy cattle. Take in the case of swine we 

 want to concentrate feed. In the case of cattle of any kind we want 

 it bulk. 



Gluten feed is used largely at the present day. At the experiment 

 station we are feeding a great deal of it to cows, also to fattening cattle. 

 During the past three or four years we have carried on a good many 

 experiments in the feeding of gluten, feed, oil meal and cottonseed oil. 

 Experiments show one about equal to the other, and it will depend upon 

 which j^ou get cheapest. If you can buy oil meal as low as gluten feed, 

 feed it. It depends largely upon the price of these stuffs. They will 

 all give good results, and the feed which can be bought for the least 

 money is the stuff to u-3. Just at the present time gluten feed can be 

 bought for a little less than any 'of the others, and gluten feed at $19 

 per ton is as cheap when fed as bran at $10, so it is a much cheaper feed 

 than most on the market. 



Gluten meal, though used largely several years ago, at the present 

 time is little fed in this country, due to the fact that firms which manu- 

 facture both of these stuffs or by-products are the glucose factories. The 

 gluten meal is the gluten out of the corn; the cob bran which is given up 

 here is the shell of the corn. Gluten feed is a mixture of gluten meal and 

 corn bran. 



We have here corn cob meal, and while a good feed oftentimes, 

 should be mixed with gluten feed, cottonseed meal or some feed rich in 

 protein. 



We have on this chart a continuation of feed stuffs and the different 

 kinds of straw and fodder. We have here corn fodder; it makes a good 

 feed — too wide in nutritive ratio, but all right to use with such as bran, 

 oil meal, gluten feed or some of those feeds. The same thing is true 

 of the different straws. 



We have down here sorghum, this is the corn sorghum, a very good 

 feed, but t)oo wide. We have here oil meal, old process and new process. 

 The difference between old and new process is that the old process oil 

 meals contain 4 per cent more fat. Generally speaking, the old process 

 is worth $1 more than the new. 



We have here dried blood, beef meal, and so on. All these are 

 by-products from the packing houses. Dried bood and beef meal, 

 which is the blood that has been dried, are rich in protein. The greatest 

 objection is that they are too high in price. 2V2 to 3 cents per pound. 

 At 114 to 1% cents per pound they might be fed to advantage, but they 

 are too high at the present time. 



We have on this chart the different kinds of hay. Timothy hay is 

 something which is grbwn quite largely throughout the country and is 

 exceptionally good for horse feeding, but not for dairy cattle. It is 

 lacking in protein. Ten pounds more of the black and yellow material 



