REPORT OF THE FIRST ASSISTANT. 



By William P. Wheeler. 



Similar work to that of the preceeding year, has been in charge of 

 the first assistant during the year 1895. The feeding of the dairy 

 cattle has been superintended, as have also the feeding experiments 

 with poultry and swine. Data concerning the yield and quality of 

 crops from the field plats treated with crude chemicals were again 

 collected. During the first few months of the year much time was 

 spent in attending to part of the routine work connected with the 

 general Station management. Some time has been occupied by a 

 portion of the large amount of Station correspondence. Almost 

 daily attention has necessarily been given to the feeding and care of 

 live stock, but several farmer's meetings were attended, and talks 

 given upon subjects relating to poultry keeping. 



Cattle Feeding. 



The coarse foods used during the year for feeding milch cows 

 have been, timothy hay, clover hay, mixed hay, mostly timothy 

 and clover, corn silage, alfalfa fodder, oat and pea fodder, corn 

 fodder, carrots and beets. The grain foods used have been, wheat 

 bran, corn meal, wheat middlings, ground oats, linseed meal, O. P., 

 cottonseed meal, gluten meal (" King") and gluten feed. 



Three times a day, at 5 o'clock a. m., at about 11.30 a. m. and at 

 5 o'clock, p. m., some coarse food has been given, either hay, silage 

 or green fodder. Some mixed grain has always been fed separately, 

 twice a day, morning and night, just before the coarse fodder has 

 been weighed out to the cows. Milking has begun at 5 o'clock 

 a. m. and at 5 o'clock p. m. 



During January and February mixed hay was fed morning and 

 nigh^-, and corn silage at noon. The mixed grain fed consisted of 

 four parts wheat bran, two parts linseed meal, O. P., two parts cot- 

 tonseed meal, two parts gluten meal and one part wheat middlings. 



