Tests with Feeding Stuffs. 



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11 per ct., more milk. Woll and Humphrey of the Wisconsin Sta- 

 tion^ place dried beet pulp at two-thirds the value of wheat 

 bran. (311, 755) 



646. Dried molasses-beet pulp. — Billings of the New Jersey Sta- 

 tion- found dried molasses-beet pulp equal in feeding value to dried 

 beet pulp for dairy cows. Dried molasses-beet pulp proved almost 

 as valuable as an equal weight of hominy meal, the cows eating the 

 dried molasses-beet pulp with more eagerness and remaining in bet- 

 ter health. The milk from cows fed on dried molasses-beet pulp 

 at first had a sweet taste, which soon passed away. Humphrey and 

 Woll of the Wisconsin Station,^ when feeding 3 lbs. of dried molasses- 

 beet pulp against 2 lbs. of wheat bran, found that 12 per ct, more milk 

 was produced on the dried molasses-beet pulp than on the bran. 

 Hills of the Vermont Station,'* on substituting 2,7 lbs. of dried mo- 

 lasses-beet pulp for an equal weight of wheat bran, secured a slightly 

 greater milk flow. ' ' Occasionally a cow showed some looseness of the 

 bowels, due apparently to the feed, but nothing serious was 

 noted." (312, 755) 



647. Dried distillers' grains.— Lindsey of the Massachusetts Sta- 

 tion^ compared dried distillers' grains wdth gluten feed in trials 

 with 6 cows, covering 2 alternate periods of 4 weeks each. The ra- 

 tion and daily returns per cow are given in the table : 



It will be seen that the ration containing dried distillers' grains 

 produced 1.5 lbs., or 6 per ct., more milk than that containing the 

 gluten feed. Hills of the Vermont Station" found that dried dis- 

 tillers' grains produced 5 per ct. more product than dried brewers' 

 grains. A mixture of 1 part wheat bran and 2 parts dried distillers' 

 grains produced 4 per ct. more milk and fat than did dried distillers' 

 grains alone. Dried distillers' grains produced one-eighth more milk 



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