^ Feeding Dairy Cattle 



The hard starchy portions of the kernels are used for differ- 

 ent purposes They may be polished up and all the fine 

 • stuff_ separated off and the finished shined material used for 

 hominy grits. The waste goes into hominy feed. Or this 

 shined material may be used in poultry feed or be reduced 

 to a hner meal for human consumption. In any case the 

 waste material separated out goes into hominy feed. 



The corn germs go to rotary presses which take out the 

 corn oil. The material left is called corn germ oil meal 

 This IS ground and goes into the hominy feed. 



HOMINY PEED 



Thus it is seen that in the modern mill hominy feed arises 

 from the (i) corn bran, (2) the soft starch portions of the 

 corn kernel, (3) the waste from the screening, polishing and 

 further grinding of the hard starch portion in the manufac- 

 ture of fancy cracked corn, grits, table corn meal and all of 

 theseniodern products, and (4) the residue of the germs after 

 the oil is pressed out. 



All of the by-products are ground up into the uniform 

 product which we know as hominy feed. Hominy feed is 

 mostly white because more white corn is milled for table 

 products. Yellow hominy feed arises in the same way when 

 yellow corn is milled. Modern hominy feed is a little poorer 

 in feeding value than that of even a few years ago, because 

 formerly the corn oil was not extracted from the germ and 

 consequently hominy feed contained more fat than it does 

 now. The analysis of hominy, given in the table above is 

 probably too high in fat. Hominy feed is one of the very 

 best of our feeds as is shown in the table. It contains more 

 protein than corn meal and the amount of total digestible 

 nutrients is just a little greater than the amount of corn meal. 

 It is lighier than corn meal and therefore more desirable 

 for feeding dairy cattle. In all tests so far as the writer is 

 aware, homin}- feed has shown up as well as corn meal both 

 for hogs and for cattle. It will keep better in storage; prob- 

 ably because it is somewhat drier and somewhat lighter. 

 Hominy feed will store all right in bulk where it is not wise 

 to store corn meal in this way. The official definition for 

 hominy feed is as follows : "Hominy feed, hominy meal or 

 hominy chops is the kiln-dried mixture of the mill run bran 

 coating, the mill run germ, with or without a partial extrac- 

 tion of the oil and a part of the starchy portion of the white 

 corn kernel obtained in the manufacture of hominy, hominy 

 grits and corn meal by the degerminating process." The 



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