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N. H. EXPERIMENT STATION 



TABLE 5 



COTTONSEED MEALS. 



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READY MIXED FEEDS SHOULD BE PROPERLY 



BALANCED 



In selecting a ready mixed feed such as a dairy feed it is 

 well to examine the analysis and see that the feed is properly 

 balanced for use with the kind of roughage which you feed. The 

 Dairy Department of the University of New Hampshire recom- 

 mend for use with a high protein roughage a fped containing 15 

 per cent crude digestible protein, for use with a medium protein 

 roughage a feed containing 17 per cent crude digestible protein 

 and for use with a low protein roughage a feed containing 19 

 per cent crude digestible protein. The analysis of a feeding- 

 stuff shows the crude protein of which a portion is not digestible. 

 While it is impossible to give an accurate figure for the digest- 

 ibility of ready mixed feeds it will be approximate to assume 

 that from 80 to 85 per cent of the crude protein is digestible. 

 On such a basis for use with a high protein roughage a ready 

 mixed dairy feed should contain at least 17.5 per cent protein 

 with a medium protein roughage at least 20 per cent protein and 

 with a low protein roughage at least 22 per cent protein. 



IMPORTANCE OF ALFALFA AND CLOVER 



Recent studies in animal nutrition and feeding trials have 

 led to discoveries which have a very important bearing upon 

 practical feeding. It has been shown for instance that not all 

 proteins are of equal value, that our feeds may be deficient in 



