10 AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION. [Jan. 



A number of reputed fodder crops, more or less new to 

 the soil of Massachusetts, have been studied with regard to 

 their adaptation to our climate and soil. Some of these 

 have been raised in sufficient quantity to test their services 

 as green fodder or hay for milk production. 



Feeding experiments with milch cows with reference to 

 an economical production of milk, and with young pigs for a 

 remunerative production of pork, have been continued. 



Considerable attention has been paid to the cost of the 

 feed for the production of mutton and beef. 



The work in the chemical laboratory has been, as usual, 

 quite large, and for different purposes. The chemical 

 analyses made at the station laboratory during the entire 

 year, aside from four hundred analyses for the Hatch Station 

 of the Agricultural College, number some nine hundred. Of 

 these, from three hundred to four hundred were made at the 

 special request of farmers in the State. They include 

 analyses of fertilizers, fodder articles, well water, milk, etc. 



The details of the work carried on in the directions previ- 

 ously stated are recorded in the subsequent pages of the 

 annual report for 1890, under the following headings : — 



Feeding Experiments. 



I. Two feeding experiments with milch cows. 



1. Some general remarks on our previous feeding experi- 



ments with milch cows. 



2. Feeding experiment with milch cows, to compare the 



value of old-process linseed meal with that of new- 

 process linseed meal. 



3. Feeding experiment with milch cows, to compare the 



economical value of reputed fodder crops, — vetch and 

 oats, and soja bean, — when fed as green fodder in part 

 or in whole for English hay. 



4. Creamery record for 1889 and 1890. 



II. Feeding experiments with lambs, to ascertain the cost of 

 feed when fattening lambs, by means of winter fodder rations, for 

 the meat market. 



III. Feeding experiments with pigs, — skim-milk, corn meal, 

 corn and cob meal, wheat bran and gluten meal, serving as fodder 

 ingredients of the daily diet. 



IV. Fodder analyses, 1890. 



