Feeding Dairy Cattle 

 brewers' dried grains, 75 pounds of cottonseed meal and 75 

 pounds of linseed oil meal. In the second mixture corn meal 

 was put in place of the barley in the same proportion. The 

 average daily ration eaten by the cows in both groups was 

 9.07 pounds of hay, 31 pounds of silage and 7.4 pounds of 

 grain. The same average amount was fed to all cows irre- 

 spective of whether they were getting ground barley or the 

 corn meal. The cows fed the barley ration did not do quite 

 so well as the cows fed on the ration containing the corn 

 meal, but there is so little difference between the yields of 

 the two groups that it is not possible definitely to say that 

 the corn meal was superior to the barley as an ingredient 

 of a good milk ration. Both groups averaged about 25 

 pounds of milk, testing 3.6 per cent, butterfat. 



There was some diiTerence in live weight which was in 

 favor of the barley ration. During the time that they were 

 fed those cows which received the sixty per cent, barley grain 

 mixture apparently gained 1.9 pounds per head. Those cows 

 that were fed on the grain mixture containing sixty per cent. 

 of corn meal apparently lost 1.6 pounds per head per day 

 while being so fed. However, these differences in live 

 weight like the milk and fat production are too small to be 

 given very much consideration as proving the barley to be of 

 greater value than the corn meal. This much can be said, 

 it seems to me that the rations were practically equal in value 

 and from the results of this test we must conclude that the 

 ground barley was fully as effective as the corn meal in a 

 ration for milk production. 



I feel that this test and the tests that are somewhat older 

 but which point to the same results show that barley is a 

 very good feed. Now that we have national prohibition in 

 the" United States, it seems to me that there should be a 

 greater quantity of barley available for feed. 



THE BY-PRODUCTS FROM. BARLEY— MALT SPROUTS, BREWERS' 



DRIED GRAINS 



Naturally barley is a low protein feed in the same class 

 with the other cereal grains such as wheat, rye, corn and 

 oats. In the process of malting and brewing, the substance 

 which is needed for the production of alcohol is the starch 

 of the barley grain, the same as in each case where alcohol 

 is produced from vegetable material. Consequently the 

 carbohydrates are used up for the production of alcohol and 

 the proportion of protein in the residue is larger. There- 



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