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Feeds and Feeding. 



and one-sixth more fat than a mixture of equal parts of corn meal 

 and bran. Dried distillers' grains and cotton-seed meal proved 

 equally efficient, but the latter proved more economical. Dried dis- 

 tillers' rye grains made less milk and butter than did the alcohol 

 grains. Armsby and Risser of the Pennsylvania Station^ found that 

 the substitution of dried distillers' grains for an equal weight of 

 a mixture of 3 lbs. of cotton-seed meal and 2.5 lbs. of corn meal 

 caused a slight increase in the milk yield. The butter from the dis- 

 tillers '-grains ration was not quite as high in quality as that from 

 the cotton-seed meal ration. On the other hand, Billings of the New 

 Jersey Station^ reports that the butter from cows fed dried dis- 

 tillers' grains was firm, of good flavor and texture, and very market- 

 able. (317) 



648. Dried brewers' grains. — At the Massachusetts Station^ Lind- 

 sey compared dried brewers' grains with wheat bran for cows. Seven 

 cows, divided into 2 lots, were fed in 2 alternate periods covering 

 4 weeks each, the ration and daily returns being as follows : 



Dried brewers' grains compared with wheat hran. 



The results show dried brewers' grains somewhat superior to wheat 

 bran for milk production. Hills of the Vermont Station* found 

 dried brewers' grains and wheat bran equal in feeding value to a 

 mixture of cotton-seed meal, linseed meal, and wheat bran. Hayward 

 and Weld of the Pennsylvania Station^ found dried brewers' grains 

 equal to buckwheat middlings. (175) 



649. Malt sprouts. — Lindsey of the Massachusetts Station*^ fed 

 malt sprouts against gluten feed to cows getting a basal ration com- 

 posed of 10 lbs. of Kentucky blue-grass hay, 10.4 lbs. rowen hay, 

 2 lbs. wheat bran, and 1 lb. corn meal. The additional concentrates 

 fed appear in the table together with the daily yield of milk and fat. 



It will be seen that 2 lbs. of malt sprouts were hardly equal to 

 1.5 lbs. of gluten feed. Hills of the Vermont Station^ found that 



Bui. 73. 



' Ept. 1907. 



^ Bui. 94. 

 * Ept. 1903. 



' Bui. 41. 

 « Bui. 94. 



Rpt. 1907. 



