The concentrate of the C diet consisted of only dry rolled barley, whereas the LD and the HD diets contained both dry rolled barley and DDGS.
The EO were fed individually at milking times (0600 and 1600 h), mixed with 0.86 kg DM of dry rolled corn grain.
Treatments were: (1) control diet; (2) rolled peas diet (RP 150 g/kg dry rolled peas, replacing SBM and corn grain; and (3) ground peas (GP as RP, but peas were coarsely ground through a hammer mill.
Treatment diets that contained dry rolled vitreous-, florry-, opaque-endospermerm corn [33% of dry matter (DM ], alfalfa silage (55% of DM) and protein-mineral-vitamin supplement (12% of DM) were fed as a total mixed ration.
Leaflets devoid of a main midrib were infiltrated with ice-cold deionised water buffered at pH 5.5 (5 mM MES/NaOH) in a vacuum-desiccator in several cycles of reducing the pressure, and left to slowly revert to atmospheric pressure until leaflets become completely dark, carefully blotted dry, rolled over a plastic tube, orientated with the cut edge up and fixed into a plastic 25-mL syringe.
When everything has dried, roll the little guy around in your hands and scruff up the fur to give it plenty of texture and body.
Dried, rolled and lighted, the plant signified nothing less than "the intoxicating newness, excitement and danger of the Americas," Mr. Widmer writes.
The large bundle of emerging fibres, known as tow, can be spun at rates slow enough to make possible the use of a large spin bath and large washing rolls, drying rolls, and other processing equipment.
All grains were dry-rolled to a processing index (PI) of 80% expressed as a percentage of volume weight of processed grain divided by the volume weight of unprocessed grain.
