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Use of Dehydrated Banana Meal in the Rations of Dairy Calves^{1, 2, 3,}

Pennsylvania Agricultural Experiment Station

ABSTRACT

1. A study has been conducted to determine the value of dehydrated banana meal in the rations of Holstein bull calves. Grain rations containing 5, 20 and 40 per cent of banana meal were fed for a period of 24 weeks. The calves in two additional groups each received 2 and 4 ounces of dehydrated banana meal twice per day mixed with the regular milk feeding during the 7-week period of milk feeding.
   
2. The inclusion of dehydrated banana meal in grain rations at the levels used or in the milk fed did not increase significantly the rate of growth in terms of body weight, chest circumference or height at withers during the trial. Similarly, the feeding of 2 and 4 ounces of dehydrated banana meal with each of the twice-per-day milk feedings did not affect significantly the rate of growth during the 7-week milk-feeding period.
   
3. Addition of 5, 20 and 40 per cent dehydrated banana meal to the grain ration or the mixture of 2 and 4 ounces of banana meal with each milk feeding did not reduce significantly the incidence of scours under the conditions of these trials.
   
4. The dehydrated banana meal did improve the palatability of the rations used. Under the conditions of these trials, banana meal could be used to replace part of the ground yellow corn and rolled oats in the rations of dairy calves.
   

¹ Taken from data presented in a thesis to the graduate faculty of the Pennsylvania State College by W. D. Fyock in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science.

² The authors wish to express their appreciation to the United Fruit Company, New York, N. Y., for a research grant which assisted in making this study possible, and to Sharp and Dohme, Inc., Glenolden, Pennsylvania, for supplying the sulfathalidine used in this trial.

³ Authorized for publication on November 19, 1948, as paper No. 1489 in the journal series of the Pennsylvania Agricultural Experiment Station.