Feeding Dairy Cattle 



them up with water and feed the rest of the grain dry on 

 top of the malt sprouts. Three or four pounds of soaked 

 malt sprouts per day per animal makes a very valuable suc- 

 culent feed in case one does not have silage. Personally I 

 have not liked malt sprouts very well as a dairy feed, but 

 there is no reason why they should not be very valuable 

 when properly used. 



THE FEEDING VALUE OP BREWERS' DRIED GRAINS 



Brewers' dried grains in my opinion are more valuable 

 pound for pound in dairy rations than wheat bran or ground 

 oats. They are particularly valuable because of the high 

 protein which they contain. There is in loo pounds of 

 brewers' dried grains a total of 26.5 pounds of protein, of this 

 21.5 pounds are digestible. In one ton of brewers' dried 

 grains there are 1314 pounds of total digestile nutrients, a 

 little less in value according to computation than in one ton 

 of malt sprouts. In my opinion pound for pound brewers' 

 dried grains are more valuable than malt sprouts. Here 

 again I have had some personal idea that I would not like 

 brewers' dried grains very well as a dairy feed, but then the 

 price is such as to warrant their use. I know that brewers' 

 dried grains are more valuable than oats but they are less 

 valuable than the other high protein feeds such as gluten 

 feed, oil meal and cottonseed meal. I look upon brewers' 

 dried grains as a very valuable feed for adding bulk to a 

 ration otherwise too heavy. 



BARLEY FEED 



During the war some barley was used for the manufac- 

 ture of barley flour for human consumption. As I remem- 

 ber it millers took out about 45 per cent, flour leaving 55 per 

 cent, of the barley kernel in the form of what was known 

 commercially as barley feed. Good brands of barley feed made 

 up of 50 per cent, of the kernel would be more valuable it 

 seems to me than wheat mixed feed and if I had an oppor- 

 tunity to buy barley feed as cheaply as I could buy wheat 

 feed, I would choose the barley feed because I think that the 

 percentage of the nutrients would be greater than in the 

 wheat feed. 



XXVni. Rye and Oats and Their Products 



IN THE rye crop we have a crop which will give us the 

 earliest green teed in the spring. Rye seeded in Sep- 

 tember and October in the cHmate of southern New York 

 and northern Pennsylvania will give a cutting of green feed 

 surely by the 15th of May. No other crop will do as well as 

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