. Feeds and feeding abridged : the essentials of the feeding, care, and management of farm animals, including poultry : adapted and condensed from Feeds and feeding (16th ed.). Feeds; Animal nutrition. Pakt II FEEDING STUFFS CHAPTER IX LEADING CEREALS AND -THEIR BY-PRODUCTS I. Corn and Its By-Products The prime importance of Indian corn, or maize, as a grain crop in the United States is shown by the fact that in acreage, in total yield, and in value, it exceeds all other cereals combined. Corn is grown in every state of the Union, but flourishes best in the great region be- tween the Appalachi
. Feeds and feeding abridged : the essentials of the feeding, care, and management of farm animals, including poultry : adapted and condensed from Feeds and feeding (16th ed.). Feeds; Animal nutrition. Pakt II FEEDING STUFFS CHAPTER IX LEADING CEREALS AND -THEIR BY-PRODUCTS I. Corn and Its By-Products The prime importance of Indian corn, or maize, as a grain crop in the United States is shown by the fact that in acreage, in total yield, and in value, it exceeds all other cereals combined. Corn is grown in every state of the Union, but flourishes best in the great region be- tween the Appalachians and the Rocky Mountain Plateau. A heat loving plant, it thrives best where the nights are warm during the growing season. Corn as a feed.—Corn is the great energizing, heat-giving, fat-fur- nishing feed for. the animals of the farm. No other cereal yields, on a given space and with a given ex- penditure of labor, so much food in both grain and forage. On mil- lions of farms successful animal husbandry rests upon this imperial crop. The corn grain is pre-eminently a carbohydrate bearer, every 100 lbs. containing over 70 lbs. of nitrogen-free extract, which is nearly all starch. In addition, corn is higher than all the other common cereals in fat, or oil, con- taining 5 per ct. of this energy-rich nutrient. Due to this abundance of starch and oil, it excels as a fattening feed. Being so rich in com. carbohydrates, corn is naturally low in crude protein. Moreover, the crude protein is somewhat un- balanced, more than half of it consisting of a single kind which lacks 117. Fig. 32.—The King op Cereals On millions of farms the success of animal husbandry depends largely on. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Henry, W. A. (William Arnon), 1850-1932; Morrison, F. B. (Frank Barron), 1887-1958. M
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