Show ROUND GROUND SOY BEANS SUPERIOR FOR COW in indiana experiment tin L H fairchild fall child and 1 W wll wil bur report the results of three trials in which soy bean oil meat and linseed oil meal were compared as components of the grain mixture of dairy cows during lactation three lots of cows were fed in two of the trials rec receiving ehing old process soy so been bean oil meal with and without minerals during different periods and linseed oil meal during a third period in one trial two lots of cows were used the feeding being for or three periods by the double reversal method new process soy bean oil meal was fed in this trial and one of the lots received minerals the results of the three experiments were not e entirely uniform but in general old process soy bean oil meal was superior to the product prepared by tle new process and both were superior to linseed oil meal for milk production and in the grain requirements old process soy goy bean oil meal produced milk of a higher fat percentage than linseed oil meal but the reverse occurred with the new process product no definite effect was wa observed from the feeding of minerals the second part of the bulletin deals with the results of two experiments in which ground soy beans with and without minerals were compared with linseed oil meal tor for milk production the combined results of th the tw two experiments indicated that the th soy say beans increased the milk production and maintained the fat percentage as compared with the linseed oil meal less grain but more silage and hay were required for milk production with linseed oil meal with the mineral supplements there was a decrease in milk production the authors conclude from the five experiments that soy bean oil meal and linseed oil meat meal are practically equal in value while ground soy beans are superior to either |