Beaver Press | 1924-09-12 | Page 2 | Wheat in Dairy Rations is Highly Recommended

wheat in dalry dairy rations la Is highly recommended recent low form farm prices of wheat und and the relatively higher price of bran and other oilier grains and byproduct by product feeds have produced an interest in the feeding value of wheat for live stock As wheat Is usually tilly too valuable to feed to dairy cattle unless unfit for milling purposes few dairymen have had experience lit in feeding it it ground wheat while not as palatable ns as other cereal grains due to the fact that it forms a sticky mass in the mouth stilt still Is an excellent feed the grain enn can be crushed enste instead ad of ground and when fed in ai a grain mixture with bulky feeds this objection Is largely overcome wheat cont contains practically the same amount of digestible carbohydrates but considerably less fat ant than corn wheat la Is slightly richer in digestible protein but Is slightly lower in digestible nutrients As compared to wheat bran whole wheat cont contains less protein hut but almost 2 25 11 per cent more teal digestible nutrients white while bran Is light and bulky whole wheat has the opposite characteristic te therefore bran arnn does not replace wheat as well as does corn