TOTAL MILK AND BUTTER PRODUCED. (Ibs.) 



Number of Number Milk 



Ration. iiniuuils. of days. Milk. solids. Butter. 



Salt hay, 27 94 11361 1523 499.6 



English hay, 27 94 11778 1585 521.8 

 Percentage increase with 



English hay ration, 3.54 3.91 4.25 



COST OF MILK AND BUTTER.* 

 Ration. Milk per quart. Butter per pound.. 



Salt hay, 1.60 cents 15 cents 



English hay, 1.9G " 17.53 " 



Percentage cost with Eng. hay ration, 15 15 



General remarks on results of tnilk experiments : If these experi- 

 ments were to be repeated, we would make each feeding experiment 

 six weeks long, for the reason that, in all probability, differences in 

 feed effects would be more fully brought out by the longer time. 



There is uo particular way io feed sail hay in order to secure extra 

 results. It is a coarse fodder, of the same general character and 

 type of composition as English hay. Milch cows fed upon it exclu- 

 sively would yield but small returns. It would hardly be advisable 

 to make it the only source of roughage, because of its excess of salt, 

 and because animals would tire of it sooner than of English hay. It 

 cannot of course take the place of the more digestible and highly 

 nitrogenous (protein rich) grain ration. It must therefore be fed as- 

 a partial substitute for some other coarse fodder. Half salt hay and 

 half P^nglish hay, pea and oat ha}', or cut corn stover would do very 

 well as a daily coarse fodder ration, but 12 pounds of salt hay 

 together with a bushel of corn ensilage for animals of average size 

 is to be preferred, because of variety, palatability, and economy. 



Salt hays contain three-fourtlis as much fertility as Itnglish hay, 

 and our results would therefore confirm the general practice of mak- 

 ing English hay a money crop, and feeding salt hay in its place. 

 To get the best returns from salt hay, it must be fed in the neigh- 

 borhood where it is produced, because of cost of transportation. 



Farmers along the coast ought to grow more corn for the silo. A 

 combination of corn ensilage, salt hay and seven to eight pounds of 

 grain daily, makes one of the very cheapest of milk producing rations. 



We have had no experience in feeding salt hay to horses, but our 

 estimation of its value would apply to all animals of the farm. 



* For summary of all results see first pages of tbis bulletin. 



