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Dry Sorghum Fodder

Categories: Feeding Farm Animals

Is Egyptian corn fodder good for cows? I have been told it would dry up

the milk. I have several acres and would like to feed it if it is not

harmful.



Dry sorghum fodder is counted about the poorest roughage that one would

think of harvesting. It is much less valuable than Indian corn fodder.

Egyptian corn is one of the non-saccharine sorghums which are valuable

both for grain or for green feeding. We nev
r heard of direct

milk-drying effect, though such a result might be expected from feeding

such innutritive material, which is also difficult of digestion. If fed

for roughness it should be in connection with concentrated foods like

bran or oil meal or with green alfalfa. No cow can give much milk when

the feed is hardly nutritive enough to keep her alive.



There seems to be, however, much difference in the dry fodders from

different varieties of sorghum. One grower writes: "Kaffir corn is the

only variety within our knowledge of which the fodder is of much value.

We consider the fodder much more preferable than that of the ordinary

Indian corn, and our stock eat it much more readily than the sweet

sorghum. However, it requires a much longer season in which to ripen

than does any of the other varieties, for which reason it is less

desirable to plant in midsummer."



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