172 INDIAN CORN CULTURE. 
For dairy cattle, 1,000 lbs. weight: (1) 10 105. corn-fodder, 10 
lbs. oat straw, 2 lbs. linseed-meal, 4 lbs. malt sprouts, 10 lbs. 
oat and corn-meal. 
(2) 60 lbs. corn silage, 5 lbs. hay, 2 lbs. linseed-meal, 4 Ibs. 
bran. 
(3) 18 lbs. corn-fodder, 8 lbs. wheat bran, 4 lbs. cotton-seed 
meal, 4 105. corn-meal. 
(4) 17 lbs. clover hay, 3 lbs. wheat bran, 10 lbs. corn-meal. 
The writer has fed very young calves skim- 
milk in which was stirred 2 to 4 oz. of very fine 
corn-meal per feed, with satisfactory results. 
Numerous old feeders drop a handful of shelled 
corn in the milk bucket when feeding calves, 
and they soon learn to clean up the grain with 
avidity. 
Sheep.—In the West, shelled corn is more 
often fed to sheep than any other kind of grain, 
a pint a day ina general way being given ma- 
ture animals, although many feed much heavier 
in finishing for the market. It is an interest- 
ing fact that while if mature cattle are fed 
shelled corn some of it will pass through them 
whole, sheep will digest the kernel entirely. 
Feeding experiments on sheep have been un- 
dertaken at the Michigan station by Smith and 
Mumford to an extensive degree.* During the 
winter of 1893-94 125 lambs were divided in 
nine lots and fed different rations for fattening. 
In all of these rations but one corn was fed, as 
* Bulletin 113, Michigan agricultural experiment station, 
October, 1894, 
