ig20.] Notes ox Feeding Stuffs for February. 1019 



If the latter, about i lb. of cake should be given to ensure the 

 requisite ration of protein, since both roots and straw are 

 dehcient in this constituent. To this maintenance ration must 

 be added about 3 lb. of concentrated food for each gallon of 

 milk. It is wiser to give a mixture of several concentrated 

 foods rather than any one such food alone. Feeding stutis 

 suitable for milch cows are : — 



s. d. 



Bran, at £12. los. per ton ex-mill . . =33 per food unit. 



Dried Ale Grains, at £1^ per ton ex-wharf = 30 

 Palm Kernel Cake, at lij, per ton ex-mill =29 

 Decorticated Ground Nut Cake, at £10 



per ton ex-mill .. .. .. . . = 3 lo 



Linseed Cake, at 3^25 per ton ex-mill . . =42 



It is necessary to point out that in order to make a fair 

 comparison between the costs of these feeding stuffs possible, 

 the ex-mill or ex-wharf prices ruling in London about 8th 

 January have been quoted. Prices might vary slightly in 

 other parts of the country. The prices do not include the cost 

 of bags. A farmer purchasing through a dealer would also 

 have to pay over and above these prices any transport charges 

 incurred, and in some cases a sum to represent the dealer's 

 profit. Purchases of small quantities from local dealers 

 would, of course, be at higher rates. 



Palm kernel cake is much the cheapest of these feeding stuffs 

 and is particularly suitable for milch cows. It should form 

 half the mixture ; the balance may be bran and decorticated 

 ground nut cake. The writer's cows have given excellent 

 results on this mixture for the last two months. 



Pig Feedingr, — ^The troubles of the pig keeper as regards food 

 are by no means over. Pigs are, or were, fed for the most part 

 on cereals or cereal products, and there were annually available 

 of these feeding stuffs from 1909 to 1913 an average of about 

 1,400,000 tons of millers' offals, 2,000,000 tons of maize (of 

 which a small proportion was used for industrial purposes), 

 1,000,000 tons of barley and 300,000 tons of brewers' grains, 

 together with considerable quantities of rice meal, etc. The 

 present production and importation of millers' offals appear 

 to be at the rate of 1,500,000 tons, and of maize 750,000 tons 

 per annum. The quantity of barley and its products available 

 for feeding purposes during the present year is hkely to be at 

 least equal to that consumed before the War. There is, there- 

 fore, a reduction of 20 to 25 per cent, in the supply of cereals 

 and cereal products suitable for pigs. As a set-off against 

 this deficit there is a similar reduction in the total number of 

 pigs in the United Kingdom, and there is no doubt that during 



