667 



(5) Api)lt pomace ensiled, and used supplementary to and in part as a substitute 

 for corn silage, is rolishod by cows, aud appoartnl by four tests to bo about e(iuiva- 

 lent in feeding value to corn silage. 



(6) Pea and oat hay was not relished, but such as was eaten proved decidedly bet- 

 ter, pound for pound, than any other fodder used. 



(7) Good corn silage caused gain in all respects over good hay. 



(8) Hungarian grass silage was fed at great loss as compared with corn silage. It 

 gave with one cow the same (one a little better), with two others [loorer results thau 

 did good hay, being, on the whole, of nearly e(iual value with it. 



(9) The error inherent in feeding trials such as here reported may be considered to 

 be, on the whole, approximately 4 per cent of the larger yield, 



(10) Water below 40^ Fall, was drunk as frcidy as when waruier, and less was drunk 

 when the barn temperature was about normal (50° Fah.) than when warmer or colder. 



(11) No relation was traced between nutritive ratio of fodders and iiroducts formed 

 or between the albuminoids of the food and the casein of the milk. 



(12) When changes in total solids take place the fat is the most likely to vary, 

 casein next, and sugar and ash least. 



(13) Generally speaking, as milk flow shrinks the percentage of solids increases, but 

 the gross amount of solids decreases. Cows in calf change quality and quantity of 

 milk more rapidlj' thau farrow cows, and cows in pasture less rapidly than when 

 barn fed. 



(14) One season's experience indicates the following as true for the station herd : 

 In changing from barn to pasture feed of equal feeding value, the quality of milk 

 changes differently in different animals, there being usually a gain in per cent of 

 solids, casein and sugar, and a loss in per cent of fat ; the gross amounts of the ingre- 

 dients aliuost invariably increase. Animal individualitj^ plays so large a part in the 

 marked change from barn to pasture feeding that the statement of the nature of the 

 change in quality should not be understood to be of general aiiplication. Further 

 work in this line is being carried out by this station. 



Fodder analyses, J. L. Hills, B. S. (pp. 85, 86).— Tabulated analy- 

 ses of Japanese buckwheat, fodder barley, fodder rye, cottonseed meal, 

 wheat bran, rice meal, hay, reed canary grass, orchard grass, brakes, 

 hops, aud sawdust with reference to food constituents, and of cotton- 

 seed meal, rice meal, brakes, hops, and sawdust with reference to fer- 

 tilizing constituents. 



Fodder crops, W. W. Cooke, M. A. (pp. S7-dS).—PricJcly comfrey, 

 winter rye, and Japanese buclaclieat. — Brief notes on these croi)s, a state- 

 ment of the yield and percentage of dry matter at different cuttings, 

 and analyses of the buckwheat at five successive cuttings. 



Varieties of silage corn. — Tabulated notes on 16 varieties of corn 

 raised at the station. " Of these 16 varieties the Wisconsin Yellow 

 Dent and the Pride of the North have done the best." 



Growth of corn. — In a test " made to determine the proper time to 

 cut corn, two fields of corn were used, one containing King Philip corn, 

 planted May 25, and the other, Burrill and Whitman, planted May 29. 

 Every fourth hill of each variety was cut August 7, August 16, Sep- 

 tember 13, and September 25." Tables show for each variety at each 

 cutting the weight of green crop, amount of dry matter in the same, 

 and the composition of the dry matter. 



