BRAN FOR DAIRY COWS.
Bran, as it is now. made, consists almost wholly, of the huslc of the grain, and is rich in oil and in phosphates. But id is not good a food as when the inner husk >' of the grain is mixed with it. This is sometimes oulled shorts, and sometimes coarse middl. ings. This, mixed with the bran, makiza excellent food, as it contains glnteWfi Btarch, Pur dairy cows it is the best of alood for producing milk j but for butter it is bflttej' : to rbflx a third part of corn-nieaJ or ootton- •'■•■ seed meal,, or both, with the bran and ■' mifldlingj, A moderate" ration of. this mixed food is 31b daily j a full ration is 61kr to 81b. It will pay to use this even for cowsfit on ; paßtoe when rioh milk is desired, as iF^ v largelyincreasesthaoreamm the milk, It may be Riven to the cows dry, or with some : short grass or clover, moistened ft little, bq that the meal cannot be swallowed without adequate mastication, ' ■
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 6, Issue 1740, 19 July 1884, Page 2
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174BRAN FOR DAIRY COWS. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 6, Issue 1740, 19 July 1884, Page 2
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