Velvet-bean. Feed, Palm-kernel Meal, Etc., for Dairy Cows 35
Velvet-Bean Feed Versus Bran and Cottonseed Meal
Four cows were fed alternately for periods of two weeks
. each, from February 24 to May 5, on mixtures given below.
l Ration and Average Daily Milk Yield from Each Cow
a Ration A—4 parts corn meal, 3 parts wheat bran, 1 ·
part cottonseed meal ,...........................,.............,».................. 22.48 lbs. milk I
Ration B·1 part corn meal, 1 part velvet—bean feed ...... 22.12 lbs. milk
Difference in favor of Ration A ........................ .36 lbs. milk
I The cost of the first mixture was $60.87 per ton and of
the second, $59.00 per ton.
Both grain mixtures gave satisfactory results, with a slight
difference in favor of thc corn-mcal-bran-eottonseed meal mix-
ture. The roughage fed with this grain ration was 30 pounds of
corn silage and 6 pounds of harley straw per day, the barley
straw being wet with molasses and water.
Palm—Kernel Meal
Palm-kernel meal is made from the ground palm-kernel
in the process of extracting the palm oil. Before the war the
kernels were shipped from Afriea to Europe, especially to Ger-
many. When shipment to those countries became impossible,
V this product was turned toward America, entering largely thru
the port of New Orleans. Here, as had been the practis in
Europe, the oil was extracted from the kernels in the oil mills
of the South, and the meal was sold for feed. lt seemed, for a
_ time, that Southern farmers were to be offered an almost nu-
i limited supply of it, hence this test to determine its feeding
_ value here. Later the British government prohibited the ex-
port of the raw material to any country exeept England. so
that palin-kernel meal is not now (W13) readily available in
Q, America.
An analysis made in the Feeding Stulis Department. of a
sample of the palm-kernel meal used in these experiments gave:
Protein 13.75 per eent; fat 2.40 per eeut; tiber l?i.5?l per eent:
ash 4.67 per eent; water 0.30 per cent; nitrogen-l`ree extrael;
4o.2G per eent. lt weighs one pound per rpiart.