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the sake of the laxative effect of the latter. With oats, 

 gluten feed makes a good concentrate for growing cattle. 

 Owing to its deficiency in mineral matter it should not be 

 used in the ration of colts or growing horses. It may bq 

 used to advantage in the rations of lambs. Evvard/ at 

 the Iowa Station, found that gluten meal or corn oil meal 

 was not a satisfactory supplement to corn for growing pigs. 



For Fattening Stock. — Gluten feed may be used as a 

 supplement to less nitrogenous concentrates for fattening 

 all classes of five stock. Under present conditions, however, 

 some cheaper supplement usually may be obtained. 



For Breeding Stock. — Gluten feed often may be used to 

 advantage in the ration of breeding animals if its cost will 

 permit. Care should be taken that the ration is not deficient 

 in mineral matter. 



For Milk Cows. — Gluten feed may be used quite exten- 

 sively in the ration of the dairy cow. In fact, this is the 

 principal use made of this feedingstuff. If not too expensive, 

 it may be used profitably to the extent of four or five pounds 

 per day. Too much gluten feed has a tendency to produce 

 soft butter. This may be counteracted by feeding cotton- 

 seed meal with it, as the latter tends to produce hard butter. 



For Work Horses. — Gluten feed is sometimes fed to the 

 horse. It has the objection that when moistened with saliva 

 it has a tendency to form balls in the mouth and is not 

 palatable. It should not be fed in large quantities, but only 

 as a supplement to corn or some other non-nitrogenous 

 concentrate. 



Corn bran is the outer covering of the corn grain. It 

 contains practically^ all the crude fiber found in the grain. 



1 Unpublished data. 



