94 HATCH EXPERIMENT STATION. [Jan. 



3. Concerning Wheat Bran. 



J. 15. IJXDSEV.' 



(1) Introduction. 



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 diificult to find. A 

 good (j[uality of bran is uniforndy palatable ; it can be fed in 

 consideral)le quantities without producing any ill effects ; it 

 acts as a slight laxative ; it furnishes more digest! )jle 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 be pur- 

 chased more cheaply in other concentrates, and that New 

 Enghind farmers often use more of it than economy war- 

 rants. 



Att(uition is called in the present paper to the composi- 

 tion, digestibility, cost of digestibh; matter and the fertilizer 

 ingredients in bran, as compared with other concentrated 

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

 silage is com})arcd with wheat l)ran as a distributer of the 

 lujavy concentrates. Note particularly the brief discussion 

 of the results, at the end of the article. 



» With E. B. Hollaml, V. U. Smitli :uid J. G. Oook. 



