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EXPEllLAIEXT STATION. 



[Jan. 



SOME PRACTICAL RESULTS OF FEEDING 

 EXPERIMENTS. 



J. B. LIKDSEY. 



Feeding Effect of Eaw Potatoes. 

 Ill the spring of 1910 potatoes were plentiful and cheap, and 

 some farmers fed them to their dairy animals rather than throw 

 them onto the field. The complaint came to the station that 

 potatoe-s thus fed caused a notiecahle shrinkage in the fat of the 

 milk, and that the cows dried off rapidly. In order to note 

 the validity of such statements three grade Jersey cows were 

 selected that had been in milk since the preceding autumn. 

 They were each given a basal ration of hay, bran and gluten 

 feed, and after an interval of five days potatoes were gradually 

 added and the amount of hay somewhat reduced as the amount 

 of potatoes fed was increased. 



