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CORK BRAN. 



Corn bran has about the same feeding value as good straw. It 

 contains about one half less protein than wheat bran but more 

 carbohydrates and fat. It feeds well with gluten meal. Only wKen 

 low priced can it be fed with profit. 



COTTON SEED MEAL. 



Cotton Seed meal, as sold on the Canadian market, is of very 

 variable composition. It frequently contains considerable hull and 

 much fluffy, fibrous material. Such meal is of low feeding value and 

 need not be expected to give good results. 



Cotton Seed meal of good quality, that is, free from hulls and 

 fibre, is, however, an excellent feed for dairy cows, when fed in 

 conjunction with other and lighter meals such as oats and bran. 

 It is, as a rule, not very acceptable to cattle at first, but is soon eaten 

 with apparent liking. It is usually as well to feed from two to 

 three or at most four pcxunds only of this meal a day, along with 

 other concentrates. Larger quantities may injuriously affect the 

 health of the animals. 



Cotton Seed meal is one of the few feeds likely to in any way 

 affect the character of the fat in the milk produced. As observed 

 elsewhere, oil cake meal fed freely will usually induce the production 

 of softer fats or softer butter. Cotton Seed meal, however, has the 

 opposite effect, as it will, if fed freely, cause the cow to produce 

 harder fats or firmer butter. 



Erom experiments it would appear that dried distillers' grains 

 are better milk producers than oats. They are worth about 50 per 

 cent more than bran, depending, of course, upon their quality 

 According to German experiments, they will produce about 12 per 

 cent more milk and 9 per cent more fat than oats. Our experiments 

 here indicate an even higher relative feeding value than the German 

 experiments point to. 



EMMER. 



Emnier and speltz, as to their nutritive properties, are more 

 nearly allied to barley than to oats, but in practice they have about 

 the same feeding value pound for pound as oats. They are always 

 ground together with the hulls, and may enter in large quantities 



