Feeding Dairy Cattle 



good protein supplement with corn, barley, oats and alfalfa 

 in a growing ration. 



SCREENINGS 



In cleaning up wheat for milling a large amount of 

 by-product called screenings is secured. This may have con- 

 siderable value for feeding if it contains a large amount <if 

 broken A^'heat and valuable weed seeds. Screenings are 

 variable however, on account of the dirt and chafif that they 

 contain. The\' should always be thoroughly ground Ijefore 

 feeding in order to destroy all weed seeds and make sure that 

 they will not get back on the land through the coa\". 



In order to get rid of the screenings to good advantage 

 millers have adopted the practice of grinding these screen- 

 ings and mixing them with the bran or middlings and selling 

 the product as "wheat bran with screenings not exceeding 

 mill run" or "wheat bran with mill run of screenings" This 

 means that ground screenings in quantitv not exceeding that 

 in the wheat from which the bran is derived, have been mixed 

 with the bran. The same applies to mixtures of wheat 

 middlings and screenings. Bran or other wheat by-product 

 mixed with screenings is subject to state license and inspec- 

 tion in most states and one should always know the analysis 

 of the wheat by-product that he is buying and see that it is 

 up to the standard. 



All things considered the wheat plant gives us a wonder- 

 ful series of foods valuable to us as humans both as food 

 directly and indirectly as food to us through our animals. 



XXX. Buckwheat and Its By-Products. Rice and Its 

 By-Products. Sorghums and Millets 



IX PRE\'IOUS articles all of the common cereal- and their 

 main by-products used for feeding dairv cows and dry 

 stock have been discussed. There are some plants more 

 or less resembling cereals or used like them that should have 

 some discussion in this series o{ papers on the "Sources of 

 Feeds" The first of these common feeds is buckwheat 



BUCKWHEAT AND ITS PRODUCTS 



The l:>uckwheat plant is not as useful as a plant to lie pas- 

 tured or as a green soiling crop. Its whole use is through 

 the grain that it bears. From the fact that buckwheat will 

 produce a good crop on relatively poor land it is grown on 

 parts of farms that otherwise would not produce much grain. 



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