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THE FEEDING OF ANIMALS 



The inferiority of the hulls as compared with the whole 

 grain or with the hulled kernels is very apparent, because 

 of their smaller proportion of protein and oil and their 

 much larger percentage of fiber. If hulls are purchased 

 at all the price should be on a par with that at which the 

 coarsest and cheapest grades of fodders are sold. 



339. Oat clippings. — Oat clippings is an offal intro- 

 duced into the market at a later date than oat 

 hulls. This waste consists of the hau-s, oat dust, 

 and light oats mostly separated from the oat kernel by 

 the clipping process. Such material is inferior both as 

 to composition and digestibility. It is now much usecl 

 in compounded feeds. Farmers will do well to carefully 

 inquire into the character of the so-called oat feeds and 

 compoimded feeds offered to them. These articles are 

 often oat hulls, poor oats, and other refuse mixed with 

 corn or with by-products of another class and are dis- 

 tinctly inferior to the whole grains. Such low-grade 

 mixtures are not wisely purchased at prices nearly equal 

 to those ruling for whole cereal grains of any kind. 



340. Barley feed. — ^This is a by-product from the 

 manufactiu-e of pearled barley, and like oat feed consists 

 of the hulls and portions of the grain and contains more 



