Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1930-11-20
VIM OAT FEED VALUE SHOWN
IN TEST

In cooperation with the Quaker
| Oats Company, Chicago, ILL.,, the
Department of Animal Husbandry Il
studying the feeding value of oat
feed, which is a major by-product OF
this and other companies engaged in
the manufacture of rolled oats or
oat meal. Oat feed consists of re-
ground oat hulls, oat shorts, and
oat middlings obtained in the first
hulling of the oats.
This study of the feeding value of
oat feed for the various classes of
livestock is conducted at Monona
Farm, owned and operated by
subsidiary of the Quaker Oats Com
pany, near Madison, six miles from
the University. The investigationaI
work here carried on covers a num-
ber of other products of the Quaker
Oats Company and is done indepen-
IDENTIFY by the Company The one
feed studied comparatively by the
University and the Quaker Oats
Company is oat feed as constituting
a primary by-product of any oat
| meal manufacture. The DEPART
ment of Animal Husbandry of the
| College cooperates in planning and
supervising investigational work
with this by-product. At present,
A, w. Lathrop and f. B. Wolberg.
on an industrial fellowship basis at
the University, under the super
vision Of G.. Bohstedt (Animal Hus-
bandry), have immediate charge of
the experimental work with oat feed.
During the past year ten feeding
trials inNnlXvintr
livestock have been completed. Six
more trials with 200 animals are in
progress. Briefly, the results Sc
cured with some of the classes Of
livestock are as follows:
Dairy cows-Two preliminary ex-
periments have been completed
using oat feed in the concentrate
mixture of dairy COWS in milk. Five
cows were used per lot in these two
experiments, fed for eighteen weeks
on the double reversal plan. Corn
silage and. timothy hay were fed as
roughages. In both experiments
the check grain mixture consisted of
wheat bran, hominy feed, cotton
seed meal, linseed meal, gluten feed,
and a simple mineral mixture
In the experimental rations, oat
feed replaced bran in the same
amount, but the proportion of other
feeds was changed in order to main
tain the same protein balance, In
one experiment bran or oat feed
constituted Is percent of the grain
mixture. Concentrates, minerals,
and roughages were fed in like
amounts to both lots of each expert
ment. The cows fed the bran ra.
ton have maintained their live
weight slightly better than those
fed oat feed. Average daily pro-
duction on the bran ration was 34.8
pounds milk and LIS pounds fat,
and on the oat feed ration 34.3
pounds milk and la pounds fat.
in these trials oat feed as here used
and fed in amounts of 5 and 25
percent of the concentrate mixture,
was worth fully 70 percent as much
as wheat bran. This is in keeping
with the relationship of the total
digestible nutrients in these two
feeds which amount to 43.3 per-
cent in oat feed and 60.9 percent
in wheat bran. Further trials COM
pairing oat feed and wheat bran in
other proportions in ration are in
progress.
Swine and Other Livestock The
value and use of oat feed for beet
cattle, sheep, and swine in also be-
ing studied. OF particular interest
are some of the results with swine.
Three experiments have been con-
Quoted where the average initial
weights of the ten pigs in each lot
were II. 58, and 46 pounds respect
lively, and where all lots were car
ried to market of 200 pounds or
more. For the check lot, ration of
hominy feed, tankage, linseed meal,
and alfalfa meal were used This
ration contained 6 percent fiber. In
the three experiments, when this ra-
tion has been compared with anoth-
er in which approximately 10 per-
cent of oat feed replaced a CORES
ponding amount of hominy feed,
which increased the fiber in the ra-
tion to percent, the rates of gain
of the check lot an compared to the
oat feed lot have been as follows:
1.49 to 1.52, 1.29 to 1.32 pounds,
and 1.21 to 1.21 pounds. Rations
containing still higher amounts OF
fiber as furnished by oat feed have
not given as comparable rates OF
gain. Further studies Of this SUBJ
ject are In progress.
Gessell Milling Co., McConnels-
vile, O.. exclusive distributors for
Morgan county.