Feeding Dairy Cattle 

 ■ from wheat bran in this regard but is fairly digestible when 

 of high grade and has about 1316 pounds of total digestible 

 nutrients to the ton. It should be used in the place of corn 

 meal, ground oats or ground barley instead of as wheat bran 

 because of its low protein content. Rice pohsh could be 

 used as one would use a fine flour middling but here again 

 the rice polish would need more protein supplement than the 

 wheat middlings. 



Rice hulls are comparable to the buckwheat hulls, the 

 analysis of which is given above only worse. In 2000 pounds 

 of rice hulls are found only 284 pounds of total digestible 

 nutrients. The hulls are unpalatable and should never be 

 fed to animals. In buying rice bran one should see that 

 there are no hulls in it. Here as in all cases, the analysi.^ 

 should be studied with care and the statement as to ingredi- 

 ents studied well to know that only rice bran is present and 

 nothing else. 



MISCELLANEOUS GRAINS— SORGHUMS AND MILLET 



The sorghums are used for both forage and grain. They 

 are of two general types the sweet or saccharine sorghums 

 and the non-saccharine sorghum. The sweet sorghums are 

 grown for forage and the non-saccharine types for both for- 

 age and grain. The principal use of sorghum is as a substi- 

 tute for corn in localities of insufficient rainfall to guarantee 

 a crop of corn. It is probably not worth while in this 

 article to spend much time on these as most of the readers 

 of the WoKLl) will depend on corn. I think it is safe to say 

 that there is no reason to try to grow any of the sorghums 

 when corn will mature. Amber forage is a sweet sorghum. 



There are three principal types of the grain sorghums. 

 kafir with compact erect heads, durra heads compact and 

 pendent and the broom corn type, heads loose and spreading. 

 There are many varieties coming under each of these three 

 types. "Milo maize" and "feterita" are of the durra type. 

 "Shallu" and "kaoliang" are varieties in the broom corn 

 group. All of these sorghums are grown more or less in the 

 semi-arid parts of the United States, where it is too dry for 

 corn and their value is proved by the great increase in 

 acreage in the past few years. 



The millets are rapid growing annual plants which may 

 be used as hot weather catch crops. The most common type 

 is the "foxtail millet" or "common millet". "Hungarian" 

 millet and "German" are coarser larger yielding varieties 

 which sacrifice in quality of forage and earliness what is 



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