406 Feeds and Feeding. 



The table shows that the ration containing malt sprouts, brewers' 

 grains, and gluten feed was rather more efficient for milk production 

 than one of oats and peas, containing slightly more digestible matter. 



651. Flesh meal, fish scrap. — In a trial by Schrodt and Peters,^ 

 bran and rape cake were gradually replaced by equal quantities of 

 flesh meal until the allowance of the latter reached 2.2 lbs. per head 

 daily. It was found that the customary shrinkage in live weight 

 when in full milk flow did not occur, and there was an increase in 

 the total quantity of milk as well as in the total solids and fat. Flesh 

 meal effected a saving of 2 lbs. of feed per head daily, and the 

 cows learned to relish it highly. (756) 



According to Kiihn,^ milk and butter of normal quality were 

 produced on a daily allowance of 2.3 lbs. of fat-free fish scrap sup- 

 plied with a variety of other feed, no deleterious effects result- 

 ing. (306) 



652. Skim milk. — Beach and Clark of the Connecticut (Storrs) 

 Station^ found that when sweet separator skim milk was offered to 

 the herd of 24 cows, only 4 would drink it, even tlio water was with- 

 held as long as 48 hours and grain was mixed with the milk. Skim 

 milk was substituted for half the grain in the ration at the rate of 8 

 lbs. of milk for 1 of concenerates, and about 1 ton of milk was fed 

 to each of the 4 cows. Feeding the skim milk caused a small in- 

 crease in milk flow and a saving of grain, which, taken together, 

 gave to the milk so fed a value of 19 cents per cwt., which is less 

 than pigs would have returned. (302) 



653. Whey.— At the Kiel Dairy Station* Schrodt fed cows a ra- 

 tion composed of 11 lbs. clover hay, 5.5 lbs. barley straw, 10 lbs. 

 mangels, 5.5 lbs. wheat bran, and 2.2 lbs. palmnut meal. During one 

 period 11 lbs, of sweet whey was fed, and during another an allow- 

 ance of 22 lbs. The whey had a favorable influence on the quantity 

 of milk yielded, and no deleterious effect on the quality of the but- 

 ter. (304) 



III. Silage; Koots; Soilage. 



654. Corn silage v. corn fodder. — Voorhees and Lane of the New 

 Jersey Station^ planted a 15-acre field to corn in rows 3.5 feet wide, 

 with the stalks 8 inches apart in the row. "When the ears were glaz- 



^ Fiih. Landw. Ztg., 1892, p. 836. 

 - .Tahresher. Agr. Chemie, 1894, p. 482. 

 == Ept. 1904. 



* Landw. Wochenbl. Schl. Hoi., 1882, p. 237; Jahresber. Agr. Chemie, 1882. 

 p. 441. 

 » Bui. 122. 



