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Feeds and Feeding. 



n. Wheat and its By-products in Milling. 

 Digestible nutrients and fertilizing constituents. 



Name of feed. 



Dry 



matter 



In 100 



pounds. 



Digestible nutrients 

 in 100 pounds. 



Pro- 

 tein. 



Carbo- 



by- 

 drates. 



Ether 

 ex- 

 tract. 



Fertilizing constitu- 

 ents In 1,000 pounds, 



Nitro- 

 gen. 



Pbos- 



phorio 



acid. 



Pot- 

 ash. 



Wheat 



High-grade flour 



Low-grade flour 



Dark feeding flour 



Wheat bran 



Wheat bran, spring wheat 

 Wheat bran, winter wheat 



Wheat shorts 



Wheat middlings 



Wheat screenings 



Lbs. 



89.5 

 87.6 

 87.6 

 90.3 



88.1 

 88.5 

 87.7 

 88.2 

 87.9 

 88.4 



Lbs. 



10.2 



8.9 



8.2 



13.5 



12.2 



12.9 



12.3 



12.2 



12.8 



9.8 



Lbs. 



69.2 

 62.4 

 62.7 

 61.3 

 39.2 

 40.1 

 37.1 

 •50.0 

 53.0 

 51.0 



Lbs. 



1.7 

 0.9 

 0.9 

 2.0 



2.7 

 3.4 

 2.6 

 3.8 

 3.4 

 2.2 



Lbs. 



23.6 

 18.9 

 28.9 

 31.8 

 26.7 



Lbs. 



7.9 



2.2 



5.6 



21.4 



28.9 



Lbs. 



5.0 



1.5 



3.5 



10.9 



16.1 



28.2 

 26.3 

 24.4 



13.5 



9.5 



11.7 



5.9 

 6.3 

 8.4 



166. Wlieat grain. — Prom the earliest times the ■wheat plant has 

 furnished the choicest food grain for man. Wheat has probably 

 never been degraded to stock-feeding purposes ttntil the most 

 recent times. During the last decade, owing to enormous pro- 

 duction, the prices for this grain fell until they approached quite 

 close to those received for com. When this anomalous and dis- 

 couraging situation was reached, our farmers at fiirst hesitated, 

 but with a sagacity most creditable to them quickly overcame 

 their long-held and not unwarranted prejudice against this seem- 

 ing perversion of nature and began to deal out wheat in large 

 quantities to their stock. Coburni reports that in Kansas, during 

 the year 1893, more than 4,000,000 bushels of wheat were fed to 

 stock by the farmers of that stat«, and that in 1894 the amount 

 so disposed of reached the enormous volume of 8,500,000 bushels. 

 Since it costs more to produce wheat than com, it is reasonable 

 to suppose that this grain will never become a common feed for 

 stock, but the feeder should know its value both absolute and 

 relative, and hold himself ready to make use of it whenever 

 market conditions warrant. 



Compared with corn, wheat carries a higher percentage of 

 starch, less ether extract and more protein. Thus it more clearly 



1 Rept. Kan. St. Bd. Agr., Sept. 30, 1894. 



