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tent of the second ration is much higher than that 

 of the first. 



In general it may be said that extensive experi- 

 ments on a commercial scale have shown that the 

 feeding value of corn is equal or in some cases 

 superior to that of oats. Corn is the chief grain 

 fed to horses and mules throughout the southern 

 states and in fact until recently it has been almost 

 the only grain used for this purpose in the South. 

 In North Dakota feeding experiments showed that 

 seventy-seven and one-half pounds of corn were 

 equal to 100 pounds of oats for work horses. Ac- 

 cording to some authorities corn incites perspir- 

 ation and renders horses softer than when oats or 

 barley are fed. Lavalard, who has made a most 

 extensive study of corn as a feed for horses, re- 

 ports that for cavalry and artillery horses as well 

 as for all horses at hard work, corn may be used 

 to replace oats without in any way injuring the 

 horses. Horses which received corn were able to 

 work more hours and to travel at the same gait as 

 those which received oats. The constituents of 

 oats are perhaps more easily and somewhat 

 better digested than those of corn but corn in turn 

 is more easily digested than beans which are often 

 used as a horse feed. In North Carolina some 

 advantage was found in grinding corn for horses 

 and excellent results were obtained when horses 

 were fed corn and cob meal. Again whether grind- 

 ing is to be recommended depends entirely on the 

 cost of grinding and the distance of the farm from 

 a suitable mill. Similar results were obtained in 

 Maryland where corn meal was found to be con- 

 siderably more digestible for horses than shelled 

 corn. 



Cotton Seed Meal. This meal, as is well known, 



