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ECONOMICAL ROUGHAGES. 



i. Early cut hay. 



2. Silage from matured corn. 



3. Oats and peas. 



4. Clover. 



UNECONOMICAL ROUGHAGES. 



1. Late cut hay. 



2. Silage from immature corn. 



3. Roots. 



4. New and untried crops. 



ECONOMICAL CONCENTRATES. 



1. Cottonseed meal. 



2. Linseed meals. 



3. Certain gluten meals and feeds. 



4. Dried brewers' grains, malt sprouts, etc. 



5. Bran, middlings, etc. 



6. Corn meal (sometimes). 



UNECONOMICAL CONCENTRATES. 



Corn meal (usually.) 



Oats. 



Oat feeds. 



Mixed feeds or provenders. 



Condimental foods, etc. 



In the amount of time which we have at our command, it 

 will hardly pay us to indicate why I have listed some of these 

 materials as economical. It may not be amiss, however, for 

 me to spend a brief moment in giving the reasons why I have 

 classified some of these as uneconomical. Late cut hay is rela- 

 tively indigestible, its quality notably inferior. Silage from 

 immature corn contains but a small proportion of the feeding 

 value that may be obtained if the kernels are allowed to reach 

 the gla/.ing period. Roots, while valuable things for dairy 

 feeding, are relatively expensive sources of digestible carbohy- 

 drates as compared with the corn crop. New and untried crops 

 are better experimented with at the stations than by farmers. 

 Of the purchased concentrates, corn meal is usually unecono- 

 mical, because it is rich in carbohydrates and it is protein 

 rather than carbohydrates which we should buy. Oats are usually 

 uneconomical at the prices asked. Oat feeds are generally 

 made up of oat hulls, refuse oats and the like, fortified some- 



