UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION 

 COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE " NJ ' IDC "" "'" 



THOMAS FOKSYTH HUNT. DEAN AND DIRECTOR 



BERKELEY H - c - VAN NORMAN, VICK-DIHCCTON AND DEAN 



UNIVERSITY FAMM SCHOOL 



CIRCULAR No. 167 



AUGUST, 1917 



FEEDING STUFFS OF MINOR 

 IMPORTANCE 



BY F. W. WOLL 



The prevailing high prices for hay and other common feeding 

 stuffs are leading farmers to look for materials that may serve as 

 partial substitutes. The object of this circular is to describe briefly 

 a number of such materials that are not generally used for stock 

 feeding by our farmers at the present time, but which can be so used 

 to a considerable extent, without affecting appreciably the production 

 of the stock, and with a resulting reduction in feed cost. 



The problem of cheapening the cost of production of animal 

 products by the use, in part, of low-grade feed materials is so much 

 the more important since normal conditions with regard to feed prices 

 are not likely to return for at least several years and as prices for 

 the products of the farm have not increased in proportion to the 

 increase in feed prices, and this condition may not be changed in 

 the near future. The farmer and stockman must, therefore, feed 

 more cheaply than in the past, or keep stock that will give better 

 returns for the feed consumed than that now commonly kept, or 

 both. This circular deals with the former method of increasing the 

 profits from stock raising, but it should be distinctly understood that 

 improvement along both lines suggested is possible, and should be 

 made in order that animal husbandry may pay as well or better in 

 the future than it has in the past. 



Most of the materials discussed in the following pages are only of 

 medium or low feeding value compared with standard cattle feeds, 

 and cannot make up the entire ration for growing or producing farm 

 animals. Stock that is idle or maintained at an even weight, on the 

 other hand, can be kept in a good body condition on rations composed 



