164 PRINCIPLES OF FEEDING FARM ANIMALS 



For fattening lambs and sheep, shelled or finely broken ear- 

 corn may form the sole concentrate if fed with clover or 

 alfalfa hay. If fed with a non-nitrogenous roughage, as 

 timothy hay or corn stover, linseed meal, cottonseed meal, 

 gluten feed, or some other nitrogenous concentrate should 

 furnish 25 per cent of the concentrates of the ration. 



For Breeding Stock. — The same precautions, only perhaps 

 in a less degree, should be taken in feeding corn to breeding 

 stock as in feeding it to growing animals. Especially is 

 this true during pregnancy. An excess of corn in the ration 

 not only does not furnish sufficient protein and mineral 

 matter for the proper development of the foetus, but it 

 also is too heating and too fattening. 



Breeding cattle require httle or no corn when good pasture 

 is available. In winter, it should not make up over one-half 

 the concentrates. Perhaps the best way to utilize corn for 

 breeding cows is in the form of silage properly supplemented. 



In the case of brood mares, either pregnant or nursing a 

 foal, corn should not form more than one-third of the con- 

 centrates. Oats or bran with a Httle Unseed meal should be 

 used with it in order to supply the deficiency in protein and 

 mineral matter. In connection with this statement, it 

 should be noted that many of the brood mares of the corn- 

 belt have no other concentrate than corn, and no other 

 roughage than timothy hay. If considerable corn is used 

 in the ration, some good, clean clover or alfalfa hay, or 

 clover or blue grass pasture should be available. 



Corn is too fattening, too heating, and too deficient in 

 bone- and muscle-forming constitutents to justify its use 

 in large quantities by breeding hogs. It may be used, how- 

 ever, up to the extent of one-third to one-half the concentrates 



