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used per day for that purpose. These facts find their 

 expression in the above-stated market cost of the nine 

 complete daily fodder rations used during the trial. The 

 market cost of the complete daily fodder rations I., II., III., 

 VIII., IX., containing rowen, averages 25.55 cents ; rations 

 IV., V., containing mixed ensilage with rowen, average 

 23.63 cents; and rations VI., VII., containing corn stover 

 as coarse feed, average 15.64 cents. The difference in the 

 market cost of the above-described nine daily fodder rations, 

 caused by the use of different coarse fodder constituents, rises 

 in some instances as high as 9.91 cents. This sum, it will 

 be noticed, is three times as large as the difference due 'to 

 an exceptional rise in the market cost of the grain feed 

 portion of the various daily fodder rations used, accepting 

 the ruling local market prices of feed stuff at the close of 

 1889 and of 1890 as the basis of our valuation. 



Taking the manurial value of the different coarse fodder 

 constituents used into consideration, we find the difference 

 of their net cost not less striking than has been shown above 

 to be the case in regard to their market cost. 



The high market price of two of our most prominent home- 

 raised coarse fodder articles, first and second cut of upland 

 meadow, — English hay and rowen, — affects seriously the 

 degree of our financial results in the production of milk, as 

 far as the cost of feed is concerned. We arc in need of a 

 cheaper source of supply of coarse fodder substances than 

 a considerable proportion of our grass lands, pastures and 

 meadows in their present state of productiveness can claim to 

 give. More satisfactory results can he obtained, no doubt, in 

 many cases by turning iiiditlerently yielding dry grass lands, 

 if at all capable of higher cultivation, to account for the 



