32 AGRICULTUEAL EXPERIMENT STATION. [Jan. 



The general character of the various kinds of grain feed 

 used in the daily diet may be seen from the following analy- 

 ses of the different articles of grain feed used : — 



Fertilizing Constituents of the Above Fodder Articles. 

 Nitrogen, 15 cents per pound ; phosphoric acid, 5^ cents ; potassium oxide, 4^ cents. 



The coarse feed used in compounding the daily diet in this 

 connection consisted either of nothing but rowen, — hay of 

 second cut of upland meadows, — or of rowcn and a mixed 

 ensilage, consisting of equal weights of green fodder corn 

 and of green soja bean, or of nothing but corn stover. The 

 same variety of dent corn, " Pride of the North," furnished 

 the green fodder corn for the mixed ensilage and for the 

 corn stover. The corn stover was obtained from the fully 

 matured corn, while the corn used for the mixed ensilage 

 had reached the stage of growth when the kernels begin to 

 glaze. 



