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AGRICULTURE. 



WEIGHT OF CONCENTRATED FEEDING STUFFS. 



(Al.VOKD.) 



Wheat, whole 



Cracked corn 



Gluten meal 



Cotton-seed meal . 



Corn meal 



Corn and cob meal 

 Wheat middlings . 



Oats, whole , 



Ground oats 



Wheat bran.. 



FOOD REQUIREMENTS OF FAR3I ANIMALS. 



It is generally assumed in comparing the food require- 

 ments of the different classes of farm animals that one cow 

 at pasture will eat as much, or seven-tenths as much, daily 

 as a full-grown horse, or as much as two yearling colts, 

 heifers, or young bulls, or as three to five calves, or four 

 colts taken from the mare, or ten to twelve sheep, or as 

 twelve to twenty three-months-old lambs, or as four to five 

 swine. It may be figured that the quantity of pasture grass 

 eaten by a cow per day, which of course will vary with the 

 season and the condition of the pasture, will equal 25-30 lbs. 

 of good meadow hay or 40 lbs. hay of inferior quality. 



C03IPARATIVE VALUE OF CATTLE FOODS. 



Comparing concentrated foods with coarse feeds, one 

 pound of the former may be considered a food unit; the 

 quantity of grass eaten by one cow at pasture during one 

 day is assumed equivalent to 12 to 13 food units during 

 the early part of the summer, and to 4 food units in the 

 late fall, 10 units being considered an average figure. 



The following quantities of different feeding stuffs are 

 considered approximately equivalent, as determined by 

 European, largely Danish, feeding experience (Schroll): 



