20 AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION. [Jan. 



sumed per day has varied in case of different animals from 

 twelve and one-half to seventeen pounds per head ; while 

 the daily consumption of the stover obtained from the dent 

 corn variety, Pride of the North, has varied per head from 

 ten to thirteen and one-half pounds. The difference in the 

 amount of both kinds of stover consumed is evidently 

 mainly due to their different state of moisture, as may be 

 noticed by comparing in both cases the total amount of dry 

 matter contained in the daily diet consumed during the 

 second and third feeding periods. 



Corn ensilage and English hay constituted the coarse fod- 

 der of the daily diet during the fourth and fifth feeding 

 periods. The amount of English hay fed per day in this 

 connection was limited in all cases to five pounds per head ; 

 that of both kinds of the ensilage was governed by the 

 appetite of each animal. Dent corn ensilage was fed in 

 connection with English hay, as stated during the fourth 

 feeding period, and the ensilage from the SAveet corn during 

 the fifth. 



The daily consumption of the ensilage from the sweet 

 corn varied per head in case of different animals from 

 twenty-four to forty-three pounds, and that of the ensilage 

 from the sweet corn from thirty-five to fifty-three pounds. 

 This dift'erence in the weights of both kinds of ensilage con- 

 sumed in case of the same animal, is materially due to the 

 same circumstance as has been pointed out previously with 

 reference to similar facts noticed concerning the consump- 

 tion of both kinds of corn stover. The ensilage of the dent 

 corn contains twenty per cent, of dry vegetable matter and 

 eighty per cent, of water, and the ensilage of the sweet 

 sixteen per cent, of dry vegetal)le matter and eighty-four 

 per cent, of water. The cows were watered twice a day, 

 about two hours after feeding time. 



The daily fodder rations below described represent the 

 average composition of the daily diet used per head during 

 the stated five succeeding feeding periods. 



