Feeding Dairy Cattle 



of total digestible nutrients. Compared with corn the rve 

 is less valuable. A ton of corn meal will have approximately 

 1676 pounds of total digestible nutrients. Therefore, on the 

 basis of digestibility as shown by the number of pounds of 

 digestible nutrients, rye would come about half way between 

 ground barley and corn meal. 



There is some prejudice against the feeding of rye to 

 horses in this country. It is possible that many of the bad 

 results laid to rye is due to grain of poor quality or grain 

 containing impurities. To be perfectly safe it seems to be 

 well to avoid the feeding of rye in large quantities to horses. 

 From what data we have it seems probable that ground rye 

 ranks about the same as ground barley as a suitable food for 

 the production of pork. 



RYE WILL NOT PRODUCE ABORTION 



One of the things attributed to rye for which I think it 

 is not to blame is the accusation that rye used as a feed for 

 dairy cattle will cause abortion. I think that this is not in 

 any way to be proven by any evidence that I have ever seen. 

 I think that no dairy farmer who has an opportunity to buy 

 rye at a good price should hesitate to use it for his dairy 

 because I do not think that it is possible to produce abortion 

 in cattle in this way. 



RYE BY-PRODUCTS 



rve 



The by-products in the manufacture of rye flour, are 

 bran and rye middlings. These by-products are not usualb 

 sold separately, but are combined and sold as rye feed. 

 Rye feed according to analysis has in it about 15.3 per cent. 

 total protein as compared with 16.8 per cent, total protein 

 in wheat feed. One ton of rye feed will contain about 1490 

 pounds of total digestible nutrients where one ton of wheat 

 feed will contain about 1340 pounds of total digestible nutri- 

 ents to the ton. The comparison of these two analyses shows 

 that rye feed will carry somewhat less protein than wheat 

 feed but that there are more total digestible nutrients per ton 

 in the rye feed, making the rye feed somCAvhat more valuable 

 than wheat feed as an ingredient in a grain mixture carrying 

 plenty of protein from other sources. I should feel that 

 where it is possible to bur rve feed that it would be found 

 to be fully as valuable as wheat feed and can be used in the 

 grain mixture in the same way. 



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