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farmers has confirmed the results obtained from the experiments, 

 and thus they are guided largely by them in their feeding operations. 



The ratio between the albuminoids and carbhydrates of a fodder 

 is called the nutritive ratio. In the ration indicated above, the 

 nutritive ratio is 1 to 5, i. e., one part albuminoids to five of carb- 

 hydrates. In good timothy hay, the nutritive ratio is about 1 to 13. 

 Hence, to produce the best results in feeding for milk some substance 

 rich in albuminoids, such as cotton seed meal, should be fed with 

 timothy hay. Other animals fed for other objects require a different 

 nutritive ratio and still others a more concentrated fodder. The 

 low value put upon straw and chaff as a fodder is not that it con- 

 tains little that can be utilized b}' the animals to which it is fed, but 

 because the digestible material it contains is almost entirely carb- 

 hydrates. 



The director of the New Jersej' Agricultural Experiment Station 

 found that in practice it took about 35 pounds of good clover hay 

 to keep up a good flow of milk in a cow of 1,000 pounds live weight 

 and at the same time prevent a loss of flesh. Clover hay was worth 

 in the market then §15.00 per ton, and the question was with him, 

 if a cheaper fodder could not be found, b}- applying to practice the 

 knowledge that has been gained in animal nutiition by the German 

 investigators, that would produce equally good results. By apply- 

 ing the principles set forth above in making up a ration for the 

 stock on the New Jersey Agricultural College farm, the question 

 has been answered in the affirmative. In looking over the fodders 

 in the market he found that — 



One Hundred Pounds of 



Timothy hay 



Clover hay 



Corn meal 



Cotton seed meal. 

 Brewers' grains.. 



.a 

 O 



48.58 

 39.71 

 66.90 

 12.62 

 14.29 



