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EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 



The author eooclndes tliat it is useless to grind grains wliicb are fed 

 to sheep. He believes that the results which he has obtained with oats 

 can be applied to other graius, but suggests that grindiug grains would 

 jjrove of advantage in feeding cattle. 



The second experiment, which was made with a horse, was divided 

 iuto 3 ijeriods, the first extending from November 22 to December 5, 

 1895, the second from December 5 to 10, and the third from December 

 19 to January 1, 189G. During the first period the horse received a 

 daily ration of 3 kg. of whole oats and 2 kg. of meadow hay, during 

 the second period the same quantities of rolled oats and hay, and dur- 

 ing the third period the same qnantities of crushed oats and hay. 

 During a preliminary period of 6 days the animal was fed 3 kg. of 

 entire oats and 2 kg. of cut hay daily. At the beginning of the first 

 period he weighed 333 kg., and at the end of this period his weight was 

 the same; at the end of the second period he weighed 342 kg., and at 

 the end of the third period, 350 kg. 



The experiment is discussed at length, and details are given in tab- 

 ular form. The coefticients of digestibility of the 3 rations are shown 

 in the following table: 



Coefficients of digesiibiliti/ in experiment with a horse. 



Period 1 (whole oats and hay) .. 

 Period 2 (rolled oats and hay). . . 

 Period 3 (crushed oats and liay) 



Total. 



Protein. 



Per cent. 

 64.53 

 68.58 

 72.73 



Per cent. 

 71.30 

 79.15 

 94.11 



Tjii „_ LNitrogen- 



exM ^■'■ee Cellulose, 



extract, ^.^^^^^.t. 



Per cent. 

 40.90 

 59.46 

 54.78 



Per cent. ' Per cent. 

 74.70 I 42.00 

 74.99 i 48.87 

 75.19 I 63.60 



Ash. 



Per cent. 

 27.78 

 31.97 

 42.71 



The rolled and crushed oats were found to be more digestible than 

 the whole oats, 92 kg. of crushed oats and 9() kg. of rolled oats having 

 the same feeding value as 100 kg. of entire oats. The cost of milling, 

 however, must be taken iuto account. Eingelmann's work ou this sub- 

 ject is quoted at length. 



Experiments in swine feeding, W. A. Henry ( Wisconsin Sta. Ept. 

 1894, pp. 5-27). 



Food required during growth by fuJl-hlood Poland- China and BerJcshire 

 pigs (pp. 5-S). — Three tests were made with Poland-China and Berkshire 

 pigs, 1 boar and 4 sows of each breed. The test began August 18 and 

 continued 224 days. It was divided into 3 periods of 154, 35, and 35 

 days. 



During the whole test the pigs were fed a grain ration, consisting of 

 wheat shorts and corn meal in equal parts, sejiarator skim milk, and 

 whey. During period 2, 2 sows from each breed received half a i)ouud 

 of cotton-seed meal daily, and the 2 remaining sows and the boar 

 received the same amount of linseed meal. During period 3 these foods 

 were reversed. The sows had the run of a short blue-grass pasture 

 until winter. They Avere then confined in a roomy j)eu and separated 

 only at the time of feeding. 



