Preparation of Feeding Stuffs. 



243 



We leam from the above that the cows did somewhat better on 

 the long hay and dry feed, both for milk and butter, than on the 

 same feed supplied in chaff form, wet and mixed with grain. 



381. Wet chaffed hay for calves. — At the Iowa Station, * Speer 

 divided a bunch of six calves into two lots of three each. To one 

 lot was fed corn and cob meal morning and evening, with dry, long 

 timothy hay given after the meal had been consumed. For the 

 other lot the feeding was as follows: Some hay was run through 

 the feed- cutter and moistened. Over this was sprinkled the corn 

 and cob meal, and the whole thoroughly mixed. An hour and a 

 half after the wet grain and hay mixture had been fed the calves 

 were supplied with dry, long hay. 



Feeding dry meal, and meal on moistened hay, to calves — Iowa Station. 



Average 

 weight at 

 beginning. 



Average 

 gain. 



Grain for 



lOOpounda 



gain. 



Meal fed dry 



Meal fed wet, mixed with hay . 



Lbs. 



452 

 480 



Lbs. 



75.8 

 68.4 



Lbs. 



642 

 600 



It will be seen that the calves fed the dry meal gained some- 

 what more than the others, and required less feed for one hundred 

 pounds of gain. 



382. Grinding grain. — This subject is a difficult one to discuss 

 owing to the great variety of conditions existing as to both grain 

 and animals. Directions are here given which may serve to 

 guide the feeder in his practice. For horses which are out of the 

 stable during the day and worked hard, all grain, with the possible 

 5 exception of oats, should be ground. For those at extremely hard 

 work, all grain should be ground and mixed with chaffed hay. 

 For idle horses, oats or corn should not be ground, nor need the 

 hay or straw be chaffed. A cow yielding a large flow of milk 

 should be regarded as a hard-working animal and her feed pre- 

 pared accordingly. (633) Fattening steers and pigs may be 

 crowded more rapidly with meal than with whole grain, though 

 there is more danger attendant upon its use. (536, 539) She^ 



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