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the market price of wheat is not too high, and with 

 good results in milk production. 



Buckwheat middlings is a favorite dairy food 

 and has been shown in numerous tests, especially 

 in Vermont, to be more effective than a combination 

 of corn and bran. In some instances it produced 

 more milk than the other common mixtures of 

 grain feeds. Recently the meal of India wheat, 

 which is really another species of buckwheat, has 

 been tested and found to be a good substitute for 

 wheat bran, cotton seed meal or linseed meal. 



In all cases where a direct comparison has been 

 made of the value of carbonaceous and nitrogenous 

 rations for dairy cows the latter have given the best 

 results. For this reason it is always desirable to 

 balance corn or Kafir corn with some other grain or 

 with alfalfa or some other leguminous forage plant. 

 When corn is worth ten cents per hundred pounds, 

 barley is worth ten cents, cowpeas fifteen cents, 

 cotton seed meal twenty-eight cents, soy-bean meal 

 twenty-three cents, wheat bran ten cents, wheat 

 middlings twelve cents, linseed meal twenty-two 

 cents, and other grains in proportion. Gluten meal 

 is a product obtained from corn in the manufacture 

 of starch and is highly nitrogenous. For milk pro- 

 duction it is about equal to cotton seed meal and 

 may be used in rations of three or four pounds. 

 A similar statement may be made regarding hominy 

 feed, germ meal and a large number of other milling 

 products which may be obtained from corn. 



Kafir corn is carbonaceous like corn and may be 

 used as a substitute for it in feeding dairy cows. As 

 a rule, it is about equally effective with corn. 

 Naturally it will be fed only in those regions where 

 it is grown extensively since, otherwise, corn is 

 rather to be preferred. Soy-bean meal and the 



