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to the same foods they form 111 groujis with an average of nine 

 cows each. 



The food was changed often but no violent changes were made 

 nor any rations fed that would appear in any respect radically 

 deficient, as the primary object for keeping the herd would not 

 have been furthered by the use of questionable rations. The 

 change usually was only a substitution of one coarse fodder for 

 another accompanied by a modification of the mixed grain. No 

 unpalatable food was used. A moderate proportion of grain 

 was always fed, varying from 5 to 9 lbs. per day, but generally 

 about 7 lbs., the average for all the time being 6.63 lbs. per 

 day. As a rule either silage, roots or green for{ige was fed with 

 any hay or other dried fodder. Only 15 rations out of a tliou- 

 sand were without some succulent food, the average moisture 

 content of these being 12.2 per ct. The average percentage of 

 moisture in all the rations was 61 per ct. 



Besides mixed grain, which was always fed, 336 rations con- 

 sisted of silage and hay, 266 rations of green forage and hay, 76 

 rations of roots and hay; 72 rations contained two kinds of 

 green forage and 47 rations one kind; 56 rations contained silage 

 and green forage; 43 rations silage, hay and corn stover; 30 

 rations silage, forage and hay; 22 rations silage and corn stover; 

 15 rations hay alone; 10 rations silage, roots and hay, and 8 

 rations silage alone. 



The coarse foods principally used were clover hay, timothy 

 hay, mixed hay, corn silage, alfalfa forage, oat-and-pea forage, 

 corn forage and mangels. Others sometimes fed were oat-and-pea 

 hay, orchard-grass hay, corn stover, barley-and-pea forage, sor- 

 ghum forage, rye forage, rye-and-pea forage, timothy forage, 

 clover silage, sugar beets and carrots. The grain foods most 

 commonly used were wheat bran, corn meal, ground oats, wheat 

 middlings, old process linseed meal, cottonseed meal, different 

 gluten meals and gluten feed. Others occasionally used were 

 new process linseed meal, brewers' grains, ground flaxseed, buck- 

 wheat middlings and malt sprouts. In a grain mixture three 

 kinds of ground feed were always used and generally more. 



