Feeding Dairy Cattle 

 what has been called "laxo" meal. Its value would of course 

 De less than that of oil meal on account of screenings present. 

 PEANUT BY-PRODUCTS 



. Peanut oil is being used more than ever. It is another 

 indication of the world shortage of fats. The extraction of 

 oil from peanuts gives us two by-products, peanut oil meal 

 and peanut feed. The difference is whether the peanut 

 shucks are m or not. In the peanut oil meal the peanuts 

 have been shelled before pressing. Peanut oil meal is a verv 

 high protein feed containing as high as 47 per cent, total 

 protein. It is a highly digestible desirable feed, palatable to 

 practically all animals. 



The peanut feed is made from the unhulled nuts and the 

 shucks reduce the protein to aljout it, per cent, and raises 

 the fiber to about 27 per cent. The peanut shucks are verv 

 poor feed and practically worthless. Therefore, one should 

 be very careful of the price in buying this feed. Peanut 

 shucks are sometimes used as an adulterant but feeding stufifs 

 laws are gradually eliminating this sort of thing. 



COCOANUT OIL MEAL 



The demand for vegetable fats for nut butters and other 

 uses has very greatly increased the production of cocoanut 

 oil. Cocoanut oil is derived from the dried cocoanut meats. 

 These dried cocoanut meats are produced in large quantities 

 in the Philippines and other Pacific islands. The com- 

 mercial name for dried cocoanut meats is copra. This has 

 given rise to another name, copra oil meal' which is synony- 

 mous with cocoanut oil meal. 



Cocoanut oil meal is a clean, fine, finely ground meal of 

 pleasant odor and taste which is palatable to dairy cows. 

 It is probably a little less valuable pound for pound than 

 gluten feed and can be used very much like gluten feed. 

 Cocoanut oil meal contains about 20 to 23 per cent, total 

 protein of which 18.8 per cent, is digestible. There are 

 about 1580 pounds of total digestible nutrients in a ton. 

 You will remember that the total digestible nutrients in a ton 

 of gluten feed is 1612. One of the things which has been 

 urged against cocoanut oil meal as a feed has been the fact 

 that it will not keep in storage. I have kept in storage in 

 southern New York nine tons of cocoanut oil meal for eigh- 

 teen months in an ordinary storage shed that was dry and 

 hot. During the summer the cocoanut oil meal did not get 

 at all rancid but it did become somewhat lumpy. However, 



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