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Dried Brewers' Grains. 

 Digestible nutrients — Protein, 21.5 per cent; carbohydrates and fat, 



44.2 per cent. 



Dried brewers' grains rank with wheat bran as a flaky 

 bulky feed. The physiological effect is nearly if not quite as 

 good as bran. They differ in that they carry a somewhat larger 

 percentage of protein than bran. Cows sometimes do not eat 

 these grains readily at first, but soon overcome this aversion. 



IVIalt Sprouts. 

 Digestible nutrients— Protein, 20.3 per cent; carbohydrates and fat, 



50.3 per cent. 



Malt sprouts are loose and bulky and cows usually do not take 

 them readily at first. The chief place of this feed is with other 

 feeds in a mixture. Both brewers' grains and malt sprouts come 

 from barley and are by-products from the manufacture of beer 



The proprietary feed companies control at the present time 

 a large percentage of th^ output of dried grains and malt sprouts 

 from the larger breweries and these excellent feeds do not now 

 appear unmixed on the market to so great an extent as they did 

 a few years ago. 



Hominy Meal, Feed, or Chop. 

 Digestible nutrients — Protein, 7 per cent; carbohydrates and fat, 

 77.6 per cent. 



This by-product of the manufacture of hominy consists of 

 part of the starchy portion of the corn and part of the germ. It 

 is variously known as the heading suggests, as hominy meal, 

 feed, or chop. In many respects it resembles corn and is a good 

 substitute for it. This feed is used chiefly to furnish the energy 

 or heat-making part of the ration, but because of its low per- 

 centage of protein it is not an economical source of the latter. 



Dried Distillers' Grain. 

 Digestible nutrients — Corn grains: Protein, 22.4 per cent; carbo- 

 hydrates and fat, 66.5 per cent. Rye grains: Protein, 13.6 per cent; car- 

 bohydrates and fat, 52.8 per cent. 



These grains are the by-product of the manufacture of al- 

 cohol and distilled liquors from corn and rye. Both kinds are 



