THE FEEDING OF LIVE STOOK. 171 
corn silage was fed 68 times, corn-fodder and 
stalks 35 times, corn-meal 42 times and corn- 
and-cob meal 14 times. Excepting bran, no 
other grain food was used as much as corn- 
meal, and corn silage was fed much more than 
any other kind of coarse fodder. From these 
100 rations the writer selects the following as 
representing a notable use of the corn plant or 
its products. Where corn silage is fed it is 
assumed that it contains the grain that was on 
the plant: 
(1) 40 lbs. corn silage, 7 lbs. hay, 1 lb. straw, 2 lbs. oil- 
meal, 2 lbs. corn-and-cob meal, 2 lbs. wheat bran. 
(2) 30 lbs. corn silage, 8 lbs. hay, 5 lbs. corn-fodder, 4 lbs. 
oats, 2 lbs. pea meal. 
(3) 40 lbs. corn silage, 15 Ibs. hay, 5 lbs. bran, 2 lbs. cotton- 
seed meal, 3 lbs. corn-meal. 
(4) 50 lbs. corn silage, 9 lbs. clover hay. 
(5) 324 lbs. corn silage, 6 lbs. clover hay, 3 lbs. corn-fodder, 
5 lbs. corn-meal, 4 lbs. shipstuff, 2 lbs. oil-meal. 
(6) 24 lbs. corn-fodder, 5 lbs. corn-meal, 34 lbs. bran, 14 
ibs. oil-meal, 4+ 10. cotton-seed meal. 
The above rations are not given as perfect 
ones, but as representing some of those fed by 
prominent dairymen of the country. 
The late Prof. ὦ. W. Stewart gave much 
attention to feeding problems. The five fol- 
lowing rations were recommended by him for 
the purposes specified :* 
For fattening cattle, 1,000 lbs. weight: 20 105. corn-fodder, 
6 lbs. corn-meal, 6 lbs. linseed cake. 
* Bulletin No. 38, Wisconsin agricultural experiment sta- 
tion, p. 44. 
