Feeding Dairy Cattle 



Farmers as a rule do not care for it and feed dealers do not 

 find it profitable to stock it. 



BARLEY, OATS AND PEAS 



We have discussed the feeding of barley and in this 

 paper we have said something about the usefulness of oats. 

 It seems to the writer that this is the proper place to just say 

 a word about the use of Canadian field peas. Field peas 

 analyze 22.9 per cent, protein and are highly digestible. 

 One ton of field peas yields 1524 pounds of total digestible 

 nutrients. 



One of the very best home grown grain mixtures would 

 be a mixture of barley, oats and peas. A good seeding mix- 

 ture is 7 pecks of oats, 3 pecks of barley and i peck of peas. 

 This mixture has given good success in New York State and 

 I know of one farmer who harvested this year 1500 bushels 

 of this home grown grain. I just want the readers of the 

 HOLSTElN-FfilBSlAiX WORLU to think about how this man is 

 fixed with a herd of 50 purebred cattle and attendant young 

 stock, who to my knowledge has in his barn a good supply 

 of alfalfa hay, a couple of silos full of good corn silage and 

 1500 bushels of barley, oats and peas as a starter on his ration 

 for the coming winter. I rather think that he is not worry- 

 ing very much about car shortage, the high price of feed and 

 things of that kind. The only thing that concerns him is to 

 see to it that the Dairymen's League gets him a good price 

 for his milk, and as a fitting end to this short article on the 

 merits of rye and oats, I take pleasure in calling attention 

 to this example as the highest type of home grown ration 

 that I have come across in my experience. 



XXIX. Wheat and Its By-Products 



CORN is always king in America from the cattle feeders' 

 standpoint. On account of the oflfal produced from 

 milling, wheat runs a close second because of the 

 immense amount of the by-product produced which is first 

 class material for feeding animals. The principal by-product 

 of wheat, the bran, is of particular importance to feeders of 

 dairy cattle because of the bulk it gives to the ration as well 

 as because of the nutrient present. All of the by-products 

 of wheat are of particular importance this year because they 

 are relatively cheaper. This is to me emphasized more and 

 more as the year goes on because oats, practically the only 

 other source of bulk in the dairy cow mixture, are going to 



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