Feeding Dairy Cattle 



feed. Either of these may be safely fed to the extent of 

 four pounds per day per cow. In a ration in which both 

 cottonseed meal and gluten feed are found, not more than 

 four pounds of both should be fed. Much has been said 

 about the trouble that these two feeds cause, but from the 

 fact that so much of both are fed in the best dairies, it seems 

 to the writer that fears are groundless in feeding them in 

 moderation. 



Linseed oil meal is a by-product from flax in the manu- 

 facture of linseed oil. This feed has a great value because 

 of its laxative ef¥ect as well as its value as a feed in itself. 



Cocoanut oil meal and peanut oil meal sometimes are 

 on the market. They are much the same in efifect as the 

 other oil meals and are valuable in proportion to their diges- 

 tible nutrients. 



Dried beet pulp is very valuable, particularly when suc- 

 culent feed is needed. It Avets up readily and is verv 

 palatable. 



Many other feeds might be mentioned. A farmer might 

 well study the possibility of buying a car of grain screenings 

 or of salvage grain and make that the basis of his feeding 

 operations. Screenings are as valuable as wheat bran when 

 of good quality and the value of salvage grain would depend 

 on the kind and the amount of damage. Screenings from 

 wheat are separated from the wheat before it is milled and 

 when of good quality consist mainly of weed seeds and 

 broken grains of wheat. Screenings should always be 

 ground. The ground screenings are now run into wheat 

 bran and wheat middlings in many mills. Salvage grain is 

 grain damaged by fire or water and afterwards kiln dried. 

 As a rule it is well liked by animals. 



Precautions: In the purchase of concentrates of all 

 kinds the tag should always be examined to know whether 

 the analysis is up to the standard or average of that partic- 

 ular feed or not. The experiment station of nearly everv 

 state publishes a bulletin on the analysis of the feeds used 

 in that state. Every reader of The World should provide 

 himself with these tables of analysis and buy on analysis and 

 on the content of total digestible nutrients. Agricultural 

 newspapers, experiment stations, farm bureaus all are ready 

 and willing to give information along these lines. Much 

 money can be saved and made by the intelligent buying of 

 feeds. 



A brief table is appended showing the grouping of feeds 



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