. Elementary treatise on stock feeds and feeding. Feeds. FEED AND CARE OE DAIRY COWS 201 Roots and Tubers.—Carrots, beets, sweet potatoes, Irish pota- toes, turnips, rutabagas, etc., are feeds that exert a beneficial effect on dairy cows. Irish and sweet potatoes usually com- mand too high a price to warrant using them as feed. How- ever, when the market price is low it sometimes pays to feed them. Beet (mangel) sugar-beet, rutabagas, carrots, and tur- nips are often fed with profit. These feeds increase milk pro-. >'^" :>v •' *'JJ Fig. 15.—Roots (mangels), a good succulent feed. du
. Elementary treatise on stock feeds and feeding. Feeds. FEED AND CARE OE DAIRY COWS 201 Roots and Tubers.—Carrots, beets, sweet potatoes, Irish pota- toes, turnips, rutabagas, etc., are feeds that exert a beneficial effect on dairy cows. Irish and sweet potatoes usually com- mand too high a price to warrant using them as feed. How- ever, when the market price is low it sometimes pays to feed them. Beet (mangel) sugar-beet, rutabagas, carrots, and tur- nips are often fed with profit. These feeds increase milk pro-. >'^" :>v •' *'JJ Fig. 15.—Roots (mangels), a good succulent feed. duction far above what would be expected from their chemical composition. In northern sections where corn is easily grown it is perhaps more economical to make silage than to grow roots for feeding. The Nebraska Experiment Station found sugar beets to have about the same feeding value as corn silage. The Colorado Experiment Station found that one ton of beets is equivalent to two tons of beet pulp. A great deal more dry matter may be produced on the same area by growing corn, 14. 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 Halligan, James Edward, 1879-. Easton, Pa. , The Chemical Publishing Co. ; London, Williams & Norgate
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