FEEDING THROUGH LACTATION PERIOD 13 



Low-Protein Feeds 



(below 12 per cent) 

 Corn meal 

 Hominy feed 

 Ground oats 

 Ground barley 

 Corn feed meal 

 Ground buckwheat 

 Ground rye 

 28. Mixtures with clover or alfalfa hay.— Where the farmer 

 has an abundance of one of these roughages and plenty of silage 

 he is in a position to buy the minimum amount of the more costly 

 high-protein feeds. His grain mixture should contain 14 to 18 

 per cent of protein. A simple mixture which would supply a little 

 over 14 per cent of protein and require the purchase of only one 

 pound in ten of high-protein feed is as follows : 



100 lbs. wheat bran 200 lbs. hominy 



150 lbs. ground oats 50 lbs. oil meal 



The first two feeds are bulky. Bran and oil meal are laxative. A 

 variety of plants is represented. The farmer could substitute for 

 ground oats and hominy any of the other low-protein feeds if they 

 could be bought more cheaply or if he had them from his own farm. 

 Cottonseed meal might be substituted for oil meal but we like to 

 have a little of the latter in every dairy ration. The protein con- 

 tent could be increased by substituting a small amount of a 

 medium- or high-protein feed in place of a part of the oats or 

 hominy. 



Another ration which would go well with legume roughage, 

 giving a somewhat greater variety of feeds and furnishing about 

 16 per cent protein is as follows: 



200 lbs. ground oats 

 100 lbs. corn feed meal 

 100 lbs. ground barley 

 100 lbs. buckwheat middlings 

 100 lbs. gluten feed 

 50 lbs. oil meal 



