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ANNUAL REPORT OP THE 



Off. Doc. 



CHART NO. 10 



MINERAL MATTER IN 1,000 LBS. OF REPRESENTATIVE FEEDING 



STUFFS. 



Name of feed. 



o 



.a 



Corn, 



Wheat (winter), 



Oats 



Barley, 



Wheat bran, 



Linseed meal 0. P 



Cotton-seed meal 



Pea meal 



Dried brewers' grains. 



Malt sprouts, 



Corn stover, 



Timothy hay, 



Red clover hay, 



Alfalfa hay, 



Co-w pea hay, 



Wheat straw 



Oat straw 



Corn silage, 



Mangels 



Kutagagas 



7.1 

 B.5 

 7.8 

 7.0 



20.0 

 6.88 

 S.48 

 0.24 



12.27 



18.46 

 0.10 



14.15 

 1.07 



10.11 



2>!85 

 28.81 



6! 22 

 0.13 



Most farmers claim that wheat bran at any price is the cheapest 

 feed. But you will notice that we have here quite a number of feeds, 

 and that corn is cheaper than wheat bran. Another man will say that 

 dried brewers' i2;rain.s is the best feed; and another red clover hay; 

 but look at the alfalfa hay and at the cow pea hay. In one experiment 

 wax cotton seed meal was fed for the effect on the butter until the 

 cows got the ricketts and they had to stop it and put in some ash. 

 These are all things that should be considered in our feed selection, 

 particularly where the cows do not get out to pasture, as is the case 

 at State College. We have some cows there that have not been out in 

 pasture for nine years, and yet we have kept them healthy. 



PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICE OF PLANT BREEDING 



By PROF. C. E. MYERS, State College, Pa. 



(This address was delivered with lantern slides.) 



Every organism is the result of two forces, environment and hered- 

 ity. By environment is meant that which has to do with immediate 

 surrounding of the individual as soil, air and water, and by heredity 

 is meant those factors which determine the specific nature of the in- 

 dividual in question. 



