Feeding Dairy Cattle 



it was not much trouble in crushing the lumps with a shovel. 

 This is a new feed which is likely to increase in quantity and 

 farmers should make themselves familiar with it so that it 

 can be purchased whenever there is a price advantage. 



SOYBEAN MEAL 



A little soybean oil meal comes on the market occasion- 

 ally. It is the by-product of the manufacture of oil from 

 soybeans. The by-product when available is one of the very 

 highest of the desirable high protein feeds. It will run 

 about 40 per cent, protein of which 38 per cent, is digestible 

 and there is about 1660 pounds of total digestible nutrients 

 in a ton. Soybean oil meal is supposed to have an extra 

 value on account of the vitamines contained in it. It is 

 doubtful, however, for general feeding whether it would be 

 worth any more than choice cottonseed meal. 



Other oil meals of somewhat the same value would be 

 the palm nut oil meal and oil meal from sunflower seeds. 

 These, however, are of so small a quantity on the market 

 that it is not worth while to go much into discussion. When 

 available they would be used in much the same way and have 

 much the same value of the oil meals that have already been 

 described. 



VELVET BEAN MEAL AND FEED 



The acreage of velvet beans grown in the South is gain- 

 ing and more and more we are having velvet bean meal and 

 velvet bean feed available for feeding dairy cattle. The 

 oil is not extracted from velvet beans so that velvet bean 

 meal is the whole ground bean. The amount of fat in velvet 

 beans is not high so it is not likely that velvet beans will 

 ever be used as a source of oil. Velvet bean meal should be 

 a very good feed of about 20 per cent, total protein with 

 about 1600 pounds of total digestible nutrients to the ton. 

 Velvet bean feed is made by grinding the beans, pod and all 

 together after they have been thoroughly dried. Of course 

 the pod is not so valuable as the bean and this gives us a 

 product with less protein, having only about 17 per cent, 

 with more fiber. The pod is not so digestible as the seeds, 

 consequently the amount of digestible nutrients is lowered 

 to something less than 1500. This makes velvet bean feed 

 about the same value and usefulness as wheat feed. 



This finishes the description of the oil meals and one or 

 two of the meals derived from some of the legume seeds. 

 This whole class of feeds makes up one of the most valuable 

 of our sources of feeds for feeding dairy cattle. 



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