FEEDS AND FEEDING III 



on the six months' feeding, even after consuming 

 three tons of corn stover. A very little clover or 

 alfalfa mixed with this corn stover would add 

 enough to its feeding value to make it a good 

 maintenance feed. All the rough feeds such as 

 kafir corn, sorghum, millet and straw may be 

 profitably utilized in wintering stock in this man- 

 ner, providing a small amount of grain is available 

 to assist in completing the ration. 



CONCENTRATES 



All of the grains and such feeds as bran, oil meal, 

 cottonseed meal, dried blood and other packing 

 house by-products, brewers' grains, in fact all feeds 

 having small bulk and high feeding value, are 

 termed concentrates. It is frequently possible by 

 the purchase of relatively small amounts of some 

 one or another of these feeds to so complete the 

 ration as to get high returns out of the rough forage 

 of the farm, which alone would not serve even as a 

 good maintenance ration. Farmers are usually 

 loath to purchase these products on account of their 

 seeming high price per pound, but when the rela- 

 tively high feeding value is considered in compari- 

 son with that of some of the home-grown products, 

 it will be seen that good value is received, in spite 

 of the high initial cost. Especially in maintaining 

 young animals where the greatest and most vigor- 

 ous growth is desired, it will never pay to feed an 

 inferior ration, when a purchase of small amounts 

 of concentrated protein will so greatly improve the 

 ration. Growth which is lost at this time in the 

 life of young animals can never be regained no 

 matter how well cared for they are later. The 

 stunted animal never acquires the quality which it 

 would have had, had its growth been continuous. 



