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DESCRIPTION OF FEEDING STUFFS 



molasses. Both screenings and molasses feeds manufactured from 

 them may be considered worth somewhat less than wheat bran, ton 

 for ton. 8 



Emmer (often incorrectly called speltz) is a drought-resistant 

 cereal crop, especially valuable in the semi-arid western United 

 States, where it is extensively grown and fed to stock. Experiment 

 stations in that region have experimented extensively with emmer 

 for a number of years, and have shown that it is well worthy of a 

 trial by farmers in those States, along with oats or where oats can- 

 not be grown. Emmer yields good crops of grain (20 to 40 bushels 

 per acre), and compares favorably in feeding value with oats and 

 barley. For best results, mixtures of oats or other grains and emmer 

 are ground and fed, instead of clear emmer, which is rather fibrous 

 and bulky. The hulls of emmer make up about 20 per cent of the 

 grain. It resembles oats more than any other grain crop, and is 

 largely used for feeding farm animals as a substitute for oats. The 

 following compilation of digestion coefficients of these two grain 

 crops and of barley shows that emmer stands between these in digest- 

 ible components, and that it stands nearer oats than barley : Sa 



Digestible Components in Oats, Emmer, and Barley, in Per Cent 



Protein 



Fat 



Oats . . . 

 Emmer 

 Barley. 



10.73 

 9.96 

 9.37 



3.59 

 1.36 

 1.66 



Fiber 



3.17 

 4.98 

 1.86 



Nitrogen- 

 free 

 extract 



51.04 

 52.06 

 69.96 



Nutritive 

 ratio 



1:5.8 

 1:6.0 

 1:9.0 



Buckwheat is rarely used for feeding farm animals, either 

 whole or ground, since it is too valuable as a raw material for the 

 manufacture of buckwheat flour. .The by-products obtained in the 

 manufacture of this flour will be considered under " Flour and 

 Cereal Mill Feeds" (p. 183). 



Sweet and non-saccharine sorghums are important bread 

 crops for the peoples of Asia and Africa. " In India alone over 

 33,000,000 acres of land are annually devoted to growing the millets, 

 including the sorghums, kafir, milos, etc., a greater area than is 

 devoted to wheat raising, rice, and Indian corn combined." 9 



"Dept. Agr. Dom. Canada, June, 1915; Inl. Rev. Dept. Bui. 254; Minn. 

 Report 1893; Farmers' Bui. 704; U. S. Dept. Agr. Bui. 328. 



"» Bureau of Chemistry, U. S. Department of Agriculture, Bulletin 120; 

 Farmers' Bulletin 466; S. D. Bui. 179. 



9 Church, " Food Grains in India," 1901 ;' cited in Henry, " Feeds and 

 Feeding," p. 147; Farmers' Bui. 37, 557; Kansas Bui. 198; U. S. Dept. 

 Agr. Bui. 188. 



