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REPORT OF FARM SUPERINTENDENT.* _ 
The early part of this report year was devoted to completion of 
report for last year, attendance on several farmers’ meetings and 
in the details of feeding experiments in the stable. — 
- About midwinter the care of and reponsibility for the rations 
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supplied and feeding of the dairy experiment animals were — 
transferred to this department. This work has been given the 
attention which its importance required, and every detail was | 
considered of importance. 
The rations were always calculated in advance, according to 
the German standard, and then proportional reductions were 
made to all the animals according to weight, after which the 
rations for certain ones which showed a tendency to lay on flesh 
were somewhat further reduced. 
In compounding these rations it was always necessary to use 
average analyses and co-efficients of digestion for some or all 
the articles fed, hence in no case can strict conformity be claimed — 
between the figures and the actual composition of food offered, 
while that actually consumed will, of course, be found somewhat. 
further off from the given standard. 
During the whole period there was a gradual change to less 
food per given weight and more coarse food in proportion to grain. | 
From the very first this feeding has been carried on in accord 
with the laws laid down by German scientists and the experience 
of American -experiments that less feed and a wider ratio. best. 
accords with American conditions. 
The care of the lysimeters and reading of soil thermometers as. 
well as the meterological record, have taken each a portion of 
time. \ 
Samples of the drainage waters were collected from each lysi- 
meter for chemical examination, and in order that the record and 
discussion may go together, no further mention of it will be made 
here, save that the record of the behavior of the new lysimeters. 
for the previous year is here given. 
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