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Feeds and Feeding. 



The great Northwest is now largely devoted to wheat growing. 

 Here the farmers are gathering into the wheat grains the fertility 

 which has been accumnlating for ages. (414) Prudent farmers 

 and stockmen further east, knowing of the fertilizing ingredients 

 in the by-prodncts of the flouring mills, are making large use 

 of them, and by carefully saving the droppings from their cattle 

 and applying them to the land, are transferring the great fertility 

 of the Northwest to other districts. In this depletion of the soil 

 of the Northwest by almost exclusive wheat growing, and in 

 transferring the fertility taken up by this crop to other regions 

 in the by-products of milling, we are experiencing one of the 

 greatest economic changes ever witnessed in American agriculture. 



III. Eye and its By-products. 

 Digestible nutrients and fertilizing constituents. 



The table shows that rye does not differ materially from wheat 

 in composition, nor are its by-products chemically dissimilar from 

 those of the wheat grain. 



177. Rye and its by-products as stock feeds. Work horses 

 in Germany are fed rye to a limited extent, 1 each animal receiv- 

 ing from two to four pounds of grain daily in addition to oats or 

 other concentrated feed. 



According to Boggild, 2 rye imparts a characteristic flavor to 

 milk and may cause bitter butter. The Scandinavian Preserving 

 Company of Copenhagen, which preserves butter by sealing in 

 air-tight cans for shipment to distant countries, prohibits the 

 feeding of rye on the farms of its patrons. It is probable that 

 the limited use of rye with dairy cows will prove satisfactory. 



1 Pott, Futterm., p. 395. 



2 Malkeribruget i Danmark, 1st eel., p. 70. 



