FEED MIXTURES.
CORRECT PROTEIN CONTENT. i n feeding trial .at tho New Vork Experiment Station, three groups pf 12 ,-ows each were fed alike on maize silage and mixed hay. fn addition to this, one group was fed a grain mixture containing 15.27 pel cent, digestible protein; the second group was fed a mixture containing 17.17 per cent, digestible protein, while the third group was fed a mixture containing 20 3 per cent, digestible protein The cows in the groups averaged 92611b., 10,0551k, and 93991b. milk respectively This would seem to indicate, says Hoard's Dairyman, that a mixture containing 20.8 per cent, digestible protein is too high, and one containing 1.3.27 per cent, is too low in this nutrient for supplementing maize silage and mixed ■ hay.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20621, 21 July 1930, Page 15
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