14 AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION. [Jan. 



I. 



FEEDINCI EXPERIMENTS WITH MILCH COWS 



(TWO). 



1891-92. 



1. Winter feeding experiments with milch cows : — 



Dent corn vs. sweet corn. 



Corn meal vs. maize feed (Chicago). 



2. Summer feeding experiments with milch cows : — 



Green feed : Rye, Canada peas and oats, summer vetch and oats, 



fodder corn and serradella. 

 Grain feed : Wheat bran, Bufl'alo gluten feed, cotton-seed meal. 



3. Creamery record of the station for 1891 and 1892. 



4. Analyses of milk of different breeds of cows by Babcock's 



mode. 

 o. Discussion on fodder articles and fodder supplies. 



Home-raised fodder ai'ticles. 

 Commercial feed stuffs. 



6. Analyses of fodder articles made at the station in 1802. 



Introduction. — From preceding annual reports it may l)e 

 noticed that of late our attention has been directed towards 

 actual feeding trials with a series of concentrated commer- 

 cial feed stuffs comparatively new in our local markets. 

 Their more general appearance in recent times rendered it 

 desirable, in the interest of our dairy industry, to ascertain 

 their comparative feeding elfects, as well as their special 

 economical merits, in our present conditions of food sup- 

 plies for the production of milk and of meat. 



These articles were as a rule compared with eac^h other as 

 well as with other standard feed stuffs, as far as practicable 

 under otherwise corresponding circumstances. They were 

 u-^ually fed in connection with the same kinds of grain feed 

 and of coarse fodder artich^s. 



The results obtained with Chicaiz:() gluten meal, ohl and 



