1891.] 



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Composition of Fodder Articles, etc. — Concluded. 

 Sugar Beets. 



3. Summer Feeding Experiments ivitli Milch Cows. 

 July 12 to Sept. 30, 1890. 



Green Crops vs. English" Hay, first and second cut. 



Green feed : vetch and oats, soja beans. 



Grain feed : corn meal, wheat bran, new-process linseed meal. 



A series of feeding experiments with milch cows have 

 been carried on at the station, since 1887, for the purpose 

 of ascertaining the feeding value of several reputed fodder 

 crops new to our section of the country. The new fodder 

 crops were fed in their green state, and their nutritive value, 

 as well as their general economical merits, compared Avith 

 those of a good average English hay, first and second cut 

 (rowen). The cutting of the new fodder crops for fodder 

 commenced at the bcijinning of their blooming^, and con- 

 tinned until their maturing. Most of them had at that time 

 some of their seeds matured, yet their stems were still 

 succulent. 



