Feeding Dairy Cattle 



Joseph E. Wing say that such a ration when fed to pregnant 

 ewes caused the unborn lambs to grow such large bone that 

 the ewes had trouble at lambing time in giving birth to such 

 large lambs. 



A good bran should analyze i6 per cent, protein, 4.4 per 

 cent, fat, 53.7 per cent, carbohydrates other than fiber, and 

 not to exceed 9.5 per cent, fiber, and should contain at least 

 1218 pounds of total digestible nutrients per ton. These 

 figures are the average of the analyses of 7,742 samples. 

 Therefore one should always find out the analysis of his bran 

 particularly if it contains screenings and check up and see if 

 it is up to the average standard. 



Bran from local country mills is likely to be fresher and 

 more palatable than bran from large western mills because 

 it has not been milled so long and because it is likely that 

 more flour is sticking to it because it may not be so closely 

 milled. 



%\TIEAT FEED, MIDDLINGS AND RED DOG 



What has been said of bran applies to wheat mixed feed. 

 Wheat feed is supposed to be the mill run of all the wheat 

 by-products mixed together in the same proportion as they 

 come from the wheat. Because the other finer by-products 

 are mixed with the bran mixed feed contains more digestible 

 matter per ton and is therefore a more valualjle feed than 

 bran. It can be used in the ration anywhere that bran can 

 be used. 



As we go down in fineness through the different grades 

 of middlings to red dog and low grade flours the amount of 

 digestible nutrients per ton increases and with this the feed- 

 ing value but there is a loss in palatability and bulkiness. 

 But all of these feeds can be used to good advantage in the 

 dairy ration if combined properly with other concentrates. 



The middhngs have a very high value for feeding hogs 

 to supplement corn. One of the best hog men in the middle 

 west uses middlings to supplement alfalfa for a growing 

 ration for pregnant sows and growing pigs in the same way 

 as suggested above in the use of bran with alfalfa for growing 

 young cattle. His mixture to be fed with skimmed milk is 

 made of 56 pounds corn meal, 48 pounds ground barley, 32 

 pounds ground oats, 136 pounds flour middlings, 50 pounds 

 alfalfa meal. 



In summer on pasture the alfalfa meal is cut out of the 

 mixture. Thus it is seen that middlings are considered a 



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