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3. Concerning Wheat Bran. 



J. B. LINDSEY.' 



(1) Lit rod action. 



Until within comparatively recent times, wheat bran and 

 corn meal have formed the two staple concentrated feeds for 

 dairy stock, and in spite of the large variety of concentrates 

 now in the market, the former still continues to be used 

 largely by the great majority of dairymen in our eastern 

 States. The reasons for this are not difficult to find. A 

 good quality of bran is uniformly palatable ; it can be fed in 

 consideraljle quantities without producing any ill effects ; it 

 acts as a slight laxative ; it furnishes more digestible protein 

 than corn ; and it serves as a very satisfactory diluter or dis- 

 tributer of the heavy concentrates, such as the glutens, cot- 

 ton-seed meal and flour middlings. It is believed, however, 

 that the nutritive material contained in bran can Ije pur- 

 chased more cheaply in other concentrates, and that New 

 England farmers often use more of it than economy war- 

 rants. 



Attention is called in the present paper to the composi- 

 tion, digestibility, cost of digestible matter and the fertilizer 

 ingredients in bran, as compared with other concentrated 

 feeds, and likewise to experiments I. and II., in which corn 

 silage is compared with wheat bran as a distril)uter of the 

 heavy concentrates. Note particularly the Ijrief discussion 

 of the results, at the end of the article. 



' With E. B. Holland, P. H. Smith and J. G. Cook. 



