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NUTRITION OF FARM ANIMALS 



TABLE 167. AMOUNT OF DIFFERENT FEEDS REQUIRED TO EQUAL ONE 



FEED UNIT 1 



FEED 



FEED REQUIRED TO 

 EQUAL i UNIT 



Average 



Range 



FOR DAIRY COWS 



Concentrates 



Corn, wheat, rye, barley, hominy feed, dried 

 brewers' grains, wheat middlings, oat shorts, 

 peas, molasses beet pulp, dry matter in roots . 



Cottonseed meal 



Oil meal, dried distillers' grains, gluten feed, soy- 

 beans 



Wheat bran, oats, dried beet pulp, barley feed, 

 malt sprouts 



Alfalfa meal, alfalfa molasses feeds 



Hay, and straw 



Alfalfa hay, clover hay 



Mixed hay, oat hay, oat and pea hay, barley and 

 pea hay, red-top hay 



Timothy hay, prairie hay, sorghum hay . . . 



Corn stover, stalks or fodder, marsh hay, cut straw 

 Soiling crops, silage and other succulent feeds 



Green alfalfa 



Green corn, sorghum, clover, peas and oats, can- 

 nery refuse 



Alfalfa silage 



Corn silage, pea vine silage 



Wet brewers' grains 



Potatoes, skim milk, buttermilk . . . . . . 



Sugar beets 



Carrots 



Rutabagas 



Field beets, green rape 



Sugar beet leaves and tops, whey 



Turnips, mangels, fresh beet pulp 



The value of pasture is generally placed at 8 to 10 

 units per day, on the average, varying with 

 kind and condition . .... 



i.o 



0.8 



0.9 

 i.i 



1.2 

 2.0 

 2-5 



3-o 

 4.0 



7.0 



8.0 



S-o 



6.0 

 4.0 

 6.0 

 7.0 

 8.0 

 9.0 



IO.O 

 12. 

 12-5 



2.0- 3.0 



2-5- 3-5 

 3-5- 6.0 



6.0- 8.0 

 7.0-10.0 

 5.0- 7.0 



8.0-10.0 



10.0-15.0 



1 The values for pigs and horses are those given in the Danish valuation table 

 and those for dairy cows the values as revised by Woll for American feeding stuffs 

 in Wisconsin Circular, No. 37. 



