14 AGRICULTUliAL EXPERIMENT STATION. [Jan. 



I. 



FEEDING EXPERIMENTS WITH MILCH COWS 



(TWO). 



1891-92. 



1. VYinter feeding experiments with milch cows : — 



Dent corn vs. sweet coi'n. 



Corn meal vs. maize feed (Chicago). 



2. Summer feeding experiments with milch cows: — 



Green feed : Rye, Canada peas and oats, summer vetch and oats, 



fodder corn and serradella. 

 Grain feed : Wheat bran, Buffalo gluten feed, cotton-seed meal. 



3. Creamery record of the station for 1891 and 1892. 



4. Analyses of milk of different breeds of cows by Babcock's 



mode. 



5. Discussion on fodder articles and fodder supplies. 



Home-raised fodder articles. 

 Commercial feed stuffs. 



6. Analyses of fodder articles made at the station in 1892. 



Iiitroduction. — From preceding annual reports it may be 

 noticed that of late our attention has been directed toAvards 

 actujil feeding trials with a series of concentrated commer- 

 cial feed stuffs comparatively new in our local markets. 

 Their more general appearance in recent times rendered it 

 desirable, in the interest of our dairy industry, to ascertain 

 their comparative feeding etiects, as well as their special 

 economical merits, in our present conditions of food sup- 

 plies for the |)roduction of milk and of meat. 



These articles were as a rule compared with each other as 

 well as with other' standard feed stuffs, as far as practicable 

 under otherwise corresponding circumstances. They were 

 usually fed in connection with the same kinds of grain feed 

 and of coarse fodder articles. 



The results obtained with Chicago gluten meal, old and 



