398 Feeds and Feeding. 



wheat shorts are of equal feeding value for the dairy cow, and prac- 

 tically equal to a mixture of ground barley and oats. (166) 



634. Buckwheat middlings. — Hills of the Vermont Station^ re- 

 ports that buckwheat middlings in the ration produced from 8 to 11 

 per ct. more milk than did an equal allowance of half corn and half 

 wheat bran. At ruling prices buckwheat middlings made cheaper 

 milk and butter than did linseed and cotton-seed meal or corn meal 

 and bran. Buckwheat middlings seemed to increase the quantity 

 of fat in the milk, tho the quality of the butter was somewhat im- 

 paired when the middlings were fed in large quantities. Hay ward 

 and Weld of the Pennsylvania Station- found that, for milk and 

 butter production, buckwheat middlings, dried brewers' grains, and 

 cerealine are equally valuable when judiciously fed as part of a bal- 

 anced ration. None of these foods had a detrimental effect upon the 

 flavor or quality of the milk or butter. (180) 



635. Gluten meal. — Hills of the Vermont Station^ fed 6 cows for 

 20 weeks, comparing gluten meal with a mixture of equal parts of 

 corn meal and wiieat bran. He found that 100 lbs. of dry matter in 

 the form of gluten meal, substituted for an equal amount of dry 

 matter in a mixture of equal parts corn meal and wheat bran, in- 

 creased the yield of milk and total solids 12.5 per ct. (158) 



636. Gluten feed.— Cooke of the Vermont Station^ fed 2 cows the 

 following rations alternately for periods of 18 days each to compare 

 gluten feed with the same weight of a mixture of corn meal and 

 wheat bran: 



Gluten feed, compared with, wheat hran and corn meal. 



The table shows a gain of 15 per ct. in milk and 16 per ct. in fat 

 thru substituting gluten feed for an equal weight of corn meal and 

 bran, equal parts. The high value of gluten feed is here shown. (158) 



Kpt. 



Bui. 41. 



Ept. 1895. 



* Ept. 1892 



