24 AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION. [Jan. 



2. SOME GOOD FODDER RATIONS FOR FARM 



ANIMALS. 



I. Milch Cows and Growing Neat Stock. 



These animals sliould have 16 pounds of dig'estiljle organic 

 nutrients daily divided into ; digestible protein, 2.50 to 3.00 

 pounds; digestible ftit, .50 to 1.00 pounds; digestible car- 

 bohydrates, 12 to 13 pounds; on the basis of 1,000 pounds 

 live weight. These various ingredients will l)e found in the 

 correct proportions in the following combinations : — 



/. Basal Rations. 



(«) {b) (c) 



English lui}',* 18 pounds. English hay, 21 pounds. English hay, . 4 pounds. 



Roots, . • 15 pounds. Corn stover, . 4 pounds. 



Corn ensilage, 40 pounds. 



{d) (e) (/) 



Hay, . . 5 pounds. Hay of vetch Green orops,t 'yO-lO pounds. 



Dry corn fodder, 2;") pounds. and oats, 10 jiounds. 



Englisli hay, 5 pounds. 



Corn stover, G pounds. 



These coarse fodders for practical purposes can generally 

 be fed ad libitum; i. e., the animals can be given all they 

 Avill consume. There are, of course, some exceptions, but 

 the practised eye of the feeder will control such cases. 



11. Grain Rations. 



The following grain rations are combined to go with the 

 a])ove coarse fodders. These should alwa^'s be weighed or 

 measured out : — 



* The many experiments at this station have shown that hay is too costly to be 

 fed in large quantities to cows and growing stock. Its place should be taken by 

 other coarse fodders. 



t In case green leguminous crops are fed, only one-half to one-thu-d of the grain 

 ration that follows need be given. 



