372) APPENDIX 
Taste IV.—The Feed-unit System 
AMOUNTS OF DIFFERENT FEEDS REQUIRED TO EQUAL ONE FEED UNIT 
Feeding stuff 
Feed required to equal 1 unit 
Average, 
pounds 
Range, 
pounds 
Concentrates: 
Corn, wheat, rye, barley, hominy feed, dried 
brewers’ grains, wheat middlings, oat 
shorts, peas, Unicorn Dairy Ration, 
molasses beet pulp, coconut meal : 
Cotton-seed meal, dried blood .. ...... 
Linseed meal, Ajax Flakes (dried distillers’ 
grains), gluten feed, soybeans........ 
Wheat bran, oats, dried beet pulp, barley 
feed, malt sprouts, International Sugar 
feed, Badger Dairy feed, Schumacher 
stock feed, molasses grains........... 
Alfalfa meal, Victor feed, June pasture, 
alfalfa molasses feeds................ 
Hay 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, 
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Soiling Crops, Silage and Other Succulent Feeds: 
Green alfalfa... 0.0.0.0... 00.0 cece eee eee 
Green corn, sorghum, clover, peas and oats, 
cannery refuse...............00eeeee 
Alfalfa silage’ oi. clon cise ee gieneangisla oa aia 
Corn silage, pea-vine silage............... 
Wet brewers’ grains.................605. 
Potatoes, skim milk, buttermilk........... 
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Field beets, green rape..............0004. 
Sugar beet leaves and tops, whey......... 
Turnips, mangels, pumpkins, fresh beet pulp 
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10.0-15.0 
The value of pasture is generally placed at 8 to 12 units per day, on the 
average, varying with kind and condition. 
