68 AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION. [Jan. 



Several of the above-enumerated more or less reputed 

 fodder plants have been for some years past successfully 

 cultivated upon the fields of the station, as may have been 

 noticed from previous communications. Some of them have 

 been raised again during the past season on a becoming scale 

 to increase our fodder supply for milch cows, etc., as green 

 fodder during summer and autumn and as ensilage during 

 winter and spring. A summary of our results may be 

 noticed m the following tabular statement. The estimate in 

 regard to meadow growth is based on the results obtained 

 by us on exceptionally good grass land (two tons of first cut 

 and one ton of second cut hay). The annual average yield 

 of meadows for the entire State does not much exceed one 

 ton of hay. 



Rye, vetch and oats, peas and oats, part of soja bean, of 

 corn and of serradella have been fed as green fodder or as 

 hay, and the remainder of green corn and soja bean, ser-" 

 radella and Hungarian, is on hand in silos as mixed ensilage 

 for winter use. 



2. Commercial Feed Stuffs. 



The name commercial feed stuff" or concentrated commercial 

 feed stuffs is usually applied to a class of substances oflered 

 for sale in our markets which, in the majority of cases, are 

 the waste or })y-products of other branches of industry. 

 Some of these articles, as brans, middlings and oil cakes 

 have been for years quite generally used in the daily diet of 

 all kinds of farm live stock ; others, as the gluten meal. 



