Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1893-03-09
EXPE RlMENT STATION LETlN
Feeding Tests with Sugar Meal, Cream
Gluten Meal and Germ Feed.

| Gluten Meal aud Germ Feed.
During the last few years several waste
| products from corn have come into the mar
kets for cattle feed. They all contain less
starch than corn meal, and more of the
other portions. They are much richer than
corn meal in the albuminoids or ''hssh for
mers" as they are called, and some of them
are remarkably rich in fat or oil. 1t is
claimed by the manufacturers that they
are moro valuable as feod pound for pound,
than corn meal.
| The present experiments were uu dertakon
to ascertain their feeding values, and also
to see IL they had any direct influence on
the quality I. o., the richness of the milk.
Three of these by-products were tested
cream gluten meal and corn germ feed,
| both from the Charles Pope Glucose COM
pany, furnished by their agent, W. f.
| Dennis, Boston. Mass, and Buffalo gluten
! feed, purchased in open market, These
were tested in comparison with each other
and with a mix ture OF equal parts by weight
| OF wheat bran and corn meal
The cream gluten meal is exceptional ly
rich in abluminoids and tat, while the ger m
feed, or it is sometimes called, 'cor II
bran, 4" has much fibre composing the
outer coating or husk OF the kernel In tn o
method Of manufacture used in their pro-
|
separated into three parts, the starch, the
bran and the gluten, while in the mill from
which the gluten feed came the separation
is made into but two parts, the starch and
gluten feed.
| Thus the gluten feed contains the same
elements as the cream gluten meal and the
! germ feed combined, and IL one part Of
germ feed were mixed with one part cream
gluten and half the weight Of starch added
| the resulting mixture would have much the
same analysis as the gluten feed.
This gluten feed is but a sample Of large
number of similar feeds that are now on
the market under the general name of
sugar meal " being the by product from
the manufacture OF glucose sugar from
corn.
The experiments were conducted with
nine cows and lasted four months, from
February % 10 June IA, 1892. The cows
were led two pounds corn meal and two
pounds wheat bran daily and four pounds
of the particular grain under experiment.
At the end Of four weeks the feed was
changed to four pounds corn meal and four
pounds bran to be again changed to the ex
detrimental grain at the end of another four
weeks and later changed again to the bran
and corn meal.
Thus each grain was compared with the
standard bran and corn meal and through
that with each other. The rest of the ration
was alike for all the cows and consisted of
eight pounds OF cut hay and whatever corn
ensilage they would eat.
The results speak very strongly in favor
Of the high feeding value OF cream gluten
meal. Two Of the cows ate it quite well;
the other left good deal of it, but in spite
of this the cream gluten produces more milk
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six, makes q richer milk five times out of
six, and yields more butter fat every time.
The milk increases about oue-tweifth, the
richness of the milk increases third of one
per cent and the net gain is about one
sixth of the total Fat.
On herd of 20 COWS yielded 5000 pounds
apiece of per cent milk with butter al 20
cents a pound, such an increase would rep
resent GEO pounds of butter yearly with q
value of Sl6j.
The figures obtained show that notwith-
standing the fact that the sugar meal was
not eaten in SO large quantities as the bran
and corn and the further fact that VIVA,
effect the charge to pasture had was against
the sugar meal, yet it gave better returns
thnn the bran and corn. In tho five trials
it produced moro milk and more pounds OF
fat every time and a richer milk four times
out of five, producing one-ninth more milk
Loo richer and one-seventh more butter.
Not so good results were obtained with
the germ feed. Its use was followed by q
decrease OF milk, an increase of richness and
but slight change in the total amount OF
fat. 1t has then considerably less feeding
value than the cream gluten meal and the
sugar meal, as one would naturally expect
from its composition and market price. /,
81 has apparently about the same feeding
= value pound for pound the mixture OF
bran and corn, and as it can be purchased
/ in the market for less than either OF these
t it follows that it should be an economical
and profitable feed.
? Hence we are led to tho conclusion tina,
the germ feed has about the same feeding
value as mixture of equal parts 10y weigh
= of wheat bran and corn meal; that sugar
5 meal and cream gluten meal both have
, higher feeding value than the above, anc
. that these latter also have slight effect OF
the richness Of the milk.
{ Finally it should be remembered that thi:
is but single series of trials and that the
= work needs to be repeated several times be
/ fore a sure conclusion can be drawn.
1t Is necessary here to utter word o
I caution in regard to the use OF these con
, centrated feeds, sugar meal and especially
, cream gluten meal. They are both exceed
. | ingy rich concentrated feeds and like cot
. ton seed meal should be fed sparingly
Three or four pounds day OF sugar mea
, per COW is as much as it is safe to give
: while with cream gluten meal the limit o
; two pounds per day per COW should not b
exceeded.
W. w. COOKE, Director.
Burlington, VT, Feb. 1893.
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