1893.J 



PUBLIC DOCUMENT — No. 33. 



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Fertilizing Constituents. 

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



3. Mode of Feeding. 



The time occupied by the experiment is divided into five 

 feeding periods, varying from two to five weelvs in length. 

 The total weigJit of the daily grain feed ration remained the 

 same throughout the entire trial, namely, nine pounds. Tliis 

 amount consisted during the first feeding period, Novem])er 

 8 to November 23, of three pounds each of maize feed (Chi- 

 cago), wheat bran and corn meal, and during the remaining 

 four feeding periods of three pounds each of Chicago maize 

 feed, wheat l)ran and cotton-seed meal. One-half of the 

 daily grain feed ration was fed at the time of milking in the 

 morning with one-half of the coarse feed, and the other half 

 Avitli the remainder of the coarse feed at the milking time 

 toward evening. 



The total amount of the daily coarse feed ration depended 

 on the individual appetite of the animals, and on the char- 

 acter of the fodder articles fed. Durins; the first feedinsr 

 period, when English hay and sugar beets constituted the 

 daily coarse feed ration, the daily consumption of roots was 

 limited per head in all cases to fifteen pounds, while the 

 daily quantity of hay consumed was decided by the appetite 

 of the animal, varying in case of different animals from 

 twelve to sixteen pounds. 



During the second and the third feeding periods nothing 

 but corn stover served as coarse feed in the daily diet. The 

 amount of stover from Stowell's Evero-reen sweet corn con- 



