172 DESCRIPTION OF FEEDING STUFFS 
molasses. Both screenings and molasses feeds manufactured from 
them may be considered worth somewhat less than wheat bran, ton 
for ton. 
Emmer (often incorrectly called speliz) is a drought-resistant 
cereal crop, especially valuable in the semi-arid western United 
States, where it is extensively grown and fed to stock. Experiment 
stations in that region have experimented extensively with emmer 
for a number of years, and have shown that it is well worthy of a 
trial by farmers in those States, along with oats or where oats can- 
not be grown. Emmer yields good crops of grain (20 to 40 bushels 
per acre), and compares favorably in feeding value with oats and 
barley. For best results, mixtures of oats or other grains and emmer 
are ground and fed, instead of clear emmer, which is rather fibrous 
and bulky. The hulls of emmer make up about 20 per cent of the 
grain. It resembles oats more than any other grain crop, and is 
largely used for feeding farm animals as a substitute for oats. The 
following compilation of digestion coefficients of these two grain 
crops and of barley shows that emmer stands between these in digest- 
ible components, and that it stands nearer oats than barley: * 
Digestible Components in Oats, Emmer, and Barley, in Per Cent 
é.. F Nitrogen- | Nutriti 
Pp F utritive 
rotein Fat ‘iber i oe ratio 
Oates ca ceineng savers es 10.73 3.59 3.17 51.04 1:5.8 
EMM? 33 e 55 ends eae oe 9.96 1.36 4.98 52.06 1: 6.0 
Barley vccveseu svn oe oe3% 9.37 1.66 ' 1.86 69.96 1: 9.0 
Buckwheat is rarely used for feeding farm animals, either 
whole or ground, since it is too valuable as a raw material for the 
manufacture of buckwheat flour. The by-products obtained in the 
manufacture of this flour will be considered under “Flour and 
Cereal Mill Feeds ” (p. 183). 
Sweet and non-saccharine sorghums are important bread 
crops for the peoples of Asia and Africa. “In India alone over 
33,000,000 acres of land are annually devoted to growing the millets, 
including the sorghums, kafir, milos, etc., a greater area than is 
devoted to wheat raising, rice, and Indian com combined.® 
* Bureau of Chemistry, U. S. Department of Agriculture, Bulletin 120; 
Farmers’ Bulletin 466. 
* Church, ‘‘ Food Grains in India,” 1901; cited in Henry, “Feeds and 
Feeding,” p. 147, 
