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APPENDIX 



TABLE IV. The Feed-unit System 



AMOUNTS OF DIFFERENT FEEDS REQUIRED TO EQUAL ONE FEED UNIT 



Feeding stuff 



Feed required to equal 1 unit 



Average, 

 pounds 



Range, 

 pounds 



Concentrates: 



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

 brewers' grains, wheat middlings, oat 

 shorts, peas, Unicorn Dairy Ration, 

 molasses beet pulp, coconut meal ... 1.0 



Cotton-seed meal, dried blood 0.8 



Linseed meal, Ajax Flakes (dried distillers' 



grains), gluten feed, soybeans 0.9 



Wheat bran, oats, dried beet pulp, barley 

 feed, malt sprouts, International Sugar 

 feed, Badger Dairy feed, Schumacher 

 stock feed, molasses grains 1.1 



Alfalfa meal, Victor feed, June pasture, 



alfalfa molasses feeds 1.2 



Hay and Straw: 



Alfalfa hay, clover hay 2.0 



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



and pea hay, red-top hay 2.5 



Timothy hay, prairie hay, sorghum hay. . . 3.0 



Corn stover, stalks or fodder, marsh hay, 



cut straw 4.0 



Soiling Crops, Silage and Other Succulent Feeds: 



Green alfalfa 7.0 



Green corn, sorghum, clover, peas and oats, 



cannery refuse 8.0 



Alfalfa silage 5.0 



Corn silage, pea- vine silage 6.0 



Wet brewers' grains 4.0 



Potatoes, skim milk, buttermilk 6.0 



Sugar beets 7.0 



Carrots 8.0 



Rutabagas 9.0 



Field beets, green rape 10.0 



Sugar beet leaves and tops, whey 12.0 



Turnips, mangels, pumpkins, fresh beet pulp 12.5 



1.5- 3.0 



2.0- 3.0 

 2.5- 4.0 



3.5- 6.0 



6.0- 8.0 

 7.0-10.0 

 5.0- 7.0 



8.0-10.0 

 10.0-15.0 



The value of pasture is generally placed at 8 to 12 units per day, on the 

 average, varying with kind and condition. 



