APPENDIX 



37.3 



Table IV. — The Feed-unit System 



AMOUNTS OF DIFFERENT FEEDS REQUIRED TO EQUAL ONE FEED UNIT 



Feeding stuff 



Concentrates: 



Com, wheat, rye, barley, hominy feed, dried 



brewers' grains, wheat middlings, oat 



shorts, peas, Unicorn Dairy Ration, 



molasses beet pulp, coconut meal . . . 



Cotton-seed meal, dried blood 



Linseed meal, Ajax Flakes (dried distillers' 

 grains), gluten feed, soybeans 



Wheat bran, oats, dried beet pulp, barley 

 feed, malt sprouts, International Sugar 

 feed, Badger Dairy feed, Schumacher 

 stock feed, molasses grains 



Alfalfa meal, Victor feed, June pasture, 

 alfalfa molasses feeds 



Hay and Straw: 



Alfalfa hay, clover hay 



Mixed hay, oat hay, oat and pea hay, barley 



and pea hay, red-top hay 



Timothy hay, prairie hay, sorghum hay. . . 

 Corn stover, stalks or fodder, marsh hay, 



cut straw • . . ' 



Soiling Crops, Silage and Other Succulent Feeds: 



Green alfalfa 



Green corn, sorghum, clover, peas and oats, 



cannery refuse 



Alfalfa silage 



Corn silage, pea-vine silage 



-Wet brewers' grains 



Potatoes, skim milk, buttermilk 



Sugar beets 



Carrots 



Rutabagas 



Field beets, green rape, 



Sugar beet leaves and tops, whey 



Turnips, mangels, pumpkins, fresh beet pulp 



Feed required to equal 1 unit 



Average, 

 pounds 



1.0 

 0.8 



0.9 



1.1 

 1-5 



2.0 



2.5 

 3.0 



4.0 



7.0 



8.0 



5.0 



6.0 



4.0 



6.0 



7.0 



8.0 



9.0 



10.0 



12.0 



12.5 



Range, 

 pounds 



1.2-2 



1.5- 3.0 



2.0- 3.0 

 2.5- 4.0 



315- 6.0 



6.0- 8.0 

 7.0-10.0 

 5.0- 7.0 



8.0-10.0 

 10.0-15.0 



The value of pasture is generally placed at 8 to 12 units per day, on the 

 average, varying with kind and condition. 



