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Wheat bran is only 62 per cent, digestible, has 12.5 per cent, of 

 digestible protein, and from the standpoint of nutrition cannot other- 

 wise be regarded than as an expensive feed. It is, however, palata- 

 ble, slightly laxative, and forms a most excellent feed with which to mix 

 the heavier concentrates. Many large milk producers prefer to use 

 one-third and even one-half bran in their grain mixtures. It is quite 

 possible to dispense with bran by making combinations of distillers' 

 grains, malt sprouts, flour middlings and corn meal. Small pro- 

 ducers, who presumably can look after the feeding of their stock, 

 may use silage or cut hay as a distributer in place of bran. Mix- 

 tures of cottonseed, fine middlings and corn meal may thus be fed 

 without injurious effect. 



Rye feed, a mixture of rye bran and rye middlings, is at least 

 equivalent to standard wheat middlings in feeding value. 



Oat midd/ifigs are a valuable feed stuff, and w'orth probably as 

 much as the best grades of wheat flour middlings. 



Proprietary or prepared protein feeds are fairly well distrib- 

 uted. They frequently consist of oat offal as a basis, fortified 

 with cottonseed meal, red dog flour and the like. Most of these 

 feeds are expensive. 



Mo/asses feeds are frequently met with, and are likely to be quite 

 freely offered in the future. Those thus far examined consist of oat 

 ofTal, light oats, malt sprouts and molasses, brought into a merchant- 

 able condition. The Statrion is making a study of these feeds, but is 

 hardly prepared, as yet, to express any positive opinion as to their 

 relative values. 



Carbohydrate Feeds. 



Cotn meal is 89 per cent, digestible, and is unquestionably the 

 standard starchy feed. Its market price is largely determined by 

 the size and condition of the Western corn crop. 



Peed barley is likewise a valuable and economical starchy feed stuff. 

 It is considered the best grain for horses, oats only excepted. It can 

 also be used satisfactorily for swine and dairy stock. 



Hominy meal ox chop, sometimes called white meal, is a kiln dried 

 by-product from the manufacture of hominy, and consists of the hull, 

 germ and the softer starchy parts of the corn kernel. In common 

 with many other by-products, different lots vary more or less in feed- 

 ing value. It is more bulky than corn meal, and can be used with 



