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FEEDS AND FEEDING, ABRIDGED 



Tabu: VI. The Feed-unit System 

 Amount of different feeds required to equal one feed unit * 



Feed 



Feed required to 

 equal 1 unit 



Average 



Range 



For dairy cows 

 Concentrates 



Corn, wheat, rye, barley, hominy feed, dried brewers' 

 grains, wheat middlings, oat shorts, peas, molasses beet 

 pulp, dry matter in roots 



Cottonseed meal 



Oil meal, dried distillers' grains, gluten feed, soy beans . 



Wheat bran, oats, dried beet pulp, barley feed, malt 

 sprouts 



Alfalfa meal, alfalfa molasses feeds 



Bay and Straw 



Alfalfa hay, clover hay 



Mixed hay, oat hay, oat and pea hay, barley and pea hay, 



red top hay 



Timothy hay, prairie hay, sorghum hay 



Corn stover, stalks or fodder, marsh hay, cut straw .... 



Soiling crops, silage and other succulent feeds 



Green alfalfa 



Green corn, sorghum, clover, peas and oats, cannery refuse 



Alfalfa silage 



Corn silage, pea vine silage 



Wet brewers' grains 



Potatoes, skim milk, buttermilk 



Sugar beets 



Carrots 



Rutabagas 



Field beets, green rape 



Sugar beet leaves and tops, whey 



Turnips, mangels, fresh beet pulp 



The value of pasture is generally placed at 8 to 10 units 

 per day, on the average, varying with kind and condi- 

 tion. 



For pigs 



Indian corn, barley, wheat, oil cakes 



Rye, wheat bran 



Boiled potatoes 



Skim milk 



Whey 



For horses 

 One lb. of Indian corn equals 1 lb. of oats or 1 lb. of dry 

 matter in roots. 



Lbs. 



1.0 

 0.8 

 0.9 



1.1 



1.2 



2.0 



1.0 

 1.4 

 4.0 

 6.0 

 12.0 



Lbs. 



1.5- 3.0 



* The values for pigs and horses are those given in the Danish valuation 

 table and those for dairy cows the values as revised by Woll for American 

 feeding stuffs, given in Wis. Cir. 37. 



