2&O FEEDING FARM ANIMALS 



food for young milk lambs. It should also feed well with 

 such foods as corn in fattening sheep when a little. bran also 

 is fed to increase the bulk and to prevent constipation. 



For young swine, gluten meal furnishes an excellent 

 food. When . thus fed, its concentration and fineness are 

 beneficial rather than otherwise. For such feeding it may 

 take the place of wheat middlings when the cost is not too 

 much For growing swine of all ages it is also excellent. 

 In trials made at the Vermont experiment station, gluten 

 meal fed along with corn was found to be 7 per cent 

 more valuable than wheat. 



To horses, gluten meal is not much fed for the reason 

 probably that it is thought to be more valuable relatively for 

 growing animals and for milk production. Nevertheless, 

 it may be fed with much propriety as a part of the ration 

 for foals, when the price will admit of it. It will also go 

 well along with corn when the latter furnishes the bulk of 

 the ration for work horses. 



To young animals, when gluten meal is fed, a small 

 amount of oil meal should improve the ration, as the for- 

 mer does not contain the mildly laxative principle found in 

 the latter. For a similar reason, a small proportion of 

 wheat bran will be found helpful when gluten meal is fed to 

 animals going on toward maturity or matured. If field 

 roots are being fed, the advantages from feeding oil cake 

 or wheat bran will be less apparent if at all in evidence. 



Much that has been said about gluten meal will apply 

 nearly as well to gluten feed, the proportion of protein be- 

 ing less and of crude fibre more than in gluten meal. Glu- 

 ten feed is not quite so suitable for young animals. On the 

 other hand, its somewhat greater bulk makes the addition 

 of some such food as bran less necessary when it is fed to 

 animals well grown. The use of gluten meal and gluten 

 feed will certainly increase much in the future since much 

 increase in the manufacture of by-products from corn is 

 assured. 



