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■ Corn Hearts Compared with Wheat Bran. 



For 7 pounds of wheat bran per head daily was sub- 

 stituted 6.8 pounds of corn hearts, a by-product from 

 corn obtained in the manufacture of grits or hominy. 

 Our supply came from the Western Grain Company, 

 Birmingham, Ala., and cost, in Birmingham, 124.00 per 

 ton in February, 1903. 



One cow failed to eat the corn hearts as freely as wheat 

 bran. 



Corn hearts vs. ichcat hran. 



Evidently corn hearts was a better food than wheat 

 bran. The increase with the corn hearts ration as com- 

 pared w^ith the bran ration was 8 per cent, in butter, 

 and 7 per cent, in milk. 



The basal ration consisted of the same materials as in 

 earlier experiments, — cotton seed and cotton seed hulls, 

 with a small proportion of both cotton seed meal and 

 wheat bran. 



In these tests corn hearts was worth as a food for pro- 

 duction of butter |21.60 per ton, when wheat bran was 

 worth 



Soy Bean Hay Compared with Cowpea Hay. 



In addition to the basal ration, which was the same 

 for both lots, soy bean hay was consumed at the rate of 

 6.6 pounds per cow daily, or cowpea hay at the rate of 

 7 pounds daily. 



