BULLETIN No. 188 DECEMBER, 1918 



MASSACHISETTS 

 AGRICILTIRAL EXPERIMENT STATION 



The NiTRiTioN of the Horse 



By J. B. LINDSEY 



Part I of this bulletin contains very brief conclusions of many 

 important investigations conducted chiefly by French and Ger- 

 man scientists. 



The results of the earlier work (previous to 1890) were based 

 largely upon the relation of digestible nutrients to maintenance 

 and work performed, while that of more recent times has been 

 based to a greater extent upon the application of calorimetry to 

 the intake and outgo of energy. 



Part II of the bulletin contains the practical conclusions of 

 feeding experiments with alfalfa, brewers' dried grains, velvet bean 

 feed and linseed meal, together with suitable combinations for 

 work horses when these feeds are used as components of the ra- 

 tion. A full description of the feeding trials follows the general 

 conclusions. 



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