EXPERIMENT STATION BULLETINS. 



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Analyses of the feeding materials were made by the chemical depart- 

 ment of the Station not infrequently. To bring together many of these 

 analyses the following table is given: 



Composition of Michigan feeding stuff's, (original analyses). 



While the composition of the grain ration was fixed in the office of 

 the Farm Department of the Experiment Station, the amount to be 

 fed each day to each cow was left to the judgment of the expert herds- 

 man. This plan was inevitable. No cow wants day after day the same 

 amount of food nor even the same mixture. When the weather is cold 

 and keen, her appetite is more vigorous, even if she is kept in a rela- 

 tivelv warm but well ventilated barn, than on a warm and murkv dav. 

 The proportion of coarse fodders to grain may profitably be increased 

 on such occasions. The quantity, therefore, both of the coarse fodders 



