1893.] 



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Analyses of Fine Feed iised. 

 [Graia Feed ] 



Fertilizing Constituents. 

 [Nitrogen 15 cents, phosphoric acid 5^ cents, potassium oxide 4^ cents, per pound ] 



Fertilizer Analyses. 



Corn 

 Meal. 



Wheat 

 Bran. 



Maize 

 Feed. 



Cotton- 

 seed Meal. 



IMoisture, 

 Nitrogen, 



Phosphoric acid, . 

 Potassium oxide, . 

 Valuation per 2,000 pounds, 



13.26 

 1.79 

 0.71 

 0.44 



$6 . 55 



7.05 

 5.77 

 2.33 

 1.72 

 $21 42 



The coarse feed-sluffs used in the daily diet consisted on 

 this occasion eitlier of a good English hay with sugar 

 beets, or of one-fourth of a daily ration of a good English 

 hay with all the ensilage the animal would consume, or of a 

 well-cured corn stover. The hay consumed throughout the 

 experiment was of the same fair quality. 



The corn ensilage was ol)tained in part from a dent corn 

 variety, *' Pride of the North," and in part from a sweet 

 corn variety, " Sto well's Evergreen." The same varieties 

 of corn furnished the corn stover. Both kinds of corn were 

 of a corresponding stage of growth when secured for the 



