This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1916 Excerpt: ...parts of oats is regarded as the best available concentrate for dairy cattle. If fed with ground oats or bran and a more nitrogenous concentrate, the barley constituting not over one-half the mixture, it is nearly as valuable as corn. For Work Horses.--Barley is used quite extensively as the sole grain feed for horses ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1916 Excerpt: ...parts of oats is regarded as the best available concentrate for dairy cattle. If fed with ground oats or bran and a more nitrogenous concentrate, the barley constituting not over one-half the mixture, it is nearly as valuable as corn. For Work Horses.--Barley is used quite extensively as the sole grain feed for horses on the Pacific coast, where corn and oats do not flourish. Also it is used extensively in Europe. Some authorities claim that barley is as valuable a feed for horses as oats. When the horses' teeth are good and the labor is not too severe, it may be fed whole. Otherwise, it should be rolled or crushed. Emmer and speltz are quite similar grains which belong to the wheat family, although in appearance they closely resemble barley. They are especially valuable in the semi-arid regions of the West and Northwest, as they Fig. 36.--A are quite resistant to drought. They are (Livigsto similar in composition to barley, but are Iflelrl Crp Pro 1 J' duction.) somewhat less valuable for feeding purposes. The sorghums are divided into two groups, the nonsaccharine, or grain sorghums, and the saccharine, or sweet sorghums, depending upon whether or not the stems con tain sugar in appreciable amounts. Both the sweet and grain sorghums are used to a large extent for human food in Asia and Africa. In this country the grain sorghums are grown to considerable extent, and the sweet sorghums to a slight extent, for stock-feeding. The sweet sorghums are not used for grain but for forage. Being drought-resistant, the grain sorghums are especially valuable as substitutes for corn in the semiarid states of the West and Southwest, such as Kansas, Oklahoma, and Texas. The principal grain sorghums are kafir corn, milo-maize, feterita, kowliang, and shallu. The seeds are...
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