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production of some other suitable fodder crop than grasses. 

 The good services of dry fodder corn, corn stover and a 

 good corn ensilage, for a more economical production of 

 milk, are deservedly from day to day more generally recog- 

 nized. However gratifying this fact may be considered, it 

 is not advisable, in the light of past experience, in a general 

 farm management to raise one fodder crop at the exclusion 

 of all others, however lucrative at the time this practice may 

 prove ; such a course can at best only offer a temporary 

 relief. The introduction of a greater variety, in particular, 

 of annual reputed fodder-crops promises a more permanent 

 improvement in fodder supply. Such a course, wherever 

 adopted, has not only resulted in cheapening the production 

 of milk and beef, but has proved to be a most economical 

 way to raise the general productiveness of farm lands to a 

 higher standard. 



Our local experience with a variety of annual leguminous 

 fodder crops, as vetches, serradella and soja bean, has been 

 very encouraging. The satisfactory results obtained in 

 previous years are fully confirmed during the present season, 

 when a mixed crop of vetch and oats and soja bean has 

 served as the principal coarse fodder for milk production 

 from the middle of June to the beginning of September. 



5. Average Quantity of Milk per Day (Quarts). 



An examination of the above statements concerning the 

 daily average yield of milk of the different cows on trial 

 during the different feeding periods shows, almost without 

 exception, that our changes in the coarse fodder constituents 

 of the daily diet have affected the results more seriously than 

 our changes in the grain feed portion. Among the coarse 



