Show cows do not like rye as well as other feed tte the most that can be said against rye as a food for dalry dairy cows or tor for that mitter for any live stock Is that it lacks palatability tile the animals dont like it as well as they do wheat or corn and many other foods they always fall all to do as well on things they dont relish as they do on things they like this la Is probably due solely to the fact that they do not eat cat as much it Is the extra pound of food that the animal eats that makes him tat or that makes the cow give tile alie extra pound ot of milk there lavery Is very little difference in the oi aleal composition of rye or wheat but wheat Is considered the better food animals like it better rye contains seven tenths of 1 per cent more digestible protein than wheat and ought ough tto to be a little better to bal once ance up a home grown ration but the consensus of opinion Is that it Is not bidina ordinarily rily it la Is more profitable to grind the wheat or rye sell the hour for human food and feed the branting bran and tind the products byproducts by contain a greater per cent of protein and are mory effective in making a balanced ration out of home grown roughage whai aliat Is practically the same thing it in most cases will pay to sell the rye at market price and purchase bran and or some other feed than to feed the whole rye to dairy cows in the case of fattening bogs would not he be true for there more car bo hydrates are needed to mak fat |