62 ILLINOIS DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION. 



The cows seemed to do better when fed grano-gluten and corn meal 

 than when they were fed shorts, corn meal and gluten meal. 



The ration from February 1 to March 15 was five pounds of gran, 

 gluten, three pounds of corn meal, and fifty pounds of silage and timoth> 

 hay. From this time on until the cows were turned out to grass, they 

 received about the following: 



Ration 11. 



Dry Pro- Carbohy- 

 Food stuffs. Lb. matter, tein. drates. Fat. Cost 



Grano-gluten 7 6.60 1,869 2.716 MS 6.3c 



Corn meal 3 2.67 .237 2.001 .129 3.0c 



Silage 60 12.54 .540 6.780 .420 6.0c 



Total nutrients 21.81 2J546 11.497 L417 15. 3 c 



It will be noticed that this ration contains no hay, corn silage beiiiir 

 the only roughage that the cows received. The cows did very well on 



this ration and when they were turned out to pasture, which was abo • 

 June 1, they were in good condition. In June the cows received about 



four pounds of grano-gluten a day, besides a grass pasture. 



In July and August they received nothing but pasture grass. The 



above rations apply more to the general feeding of the best milker 

 in the herd, the strippers and poor milkers getting according to the 

 amount of milk they were producing. 



It should be observed that the rations given to the cows during the 

 year did not contain a large amount of grain, but each one contained a 

 liberal amount of nutrients for cows that were giving a large flow of 

 milk and yielding large amounts of butter fat. It will also be noticed 

 that each ration contained over two pounds of protein. This can be 

 accounted for when grano-gluten is compared with bran or oats, for it 

 contains twice as much digestible protein. Therefore, it is not necessary 

 to feed so many pounds of the grano-gluten as we would have to feed of 

 bran or oats to get the same amount of digestible protein. 



The above facts are mentioned so that the reader will not be misled 

 when he compares the total amount of grain that each cow in this herd 

 consumed with the total amount of grain consumed by each cow in some 

 other herd. When the cows in this herd were not receiving grano-gluten 

 they were receiving gluten meal which is a by-product of glucose refining 



