EXPERIMENTS IM FEEDING HORSES 43 



equal to timothv hay, and also when corn stover or tiniothv 

 hav furnish the roughage of a ration, oats and corn half and 

 half, and bran and corn half and half, have, generally speak- 

 insj;, equivalent feeding values. 



This experiment so far as it touches on grain constituents 

 of a ration is quite consistent with the conclusions evident 

 from the facts of Ration 2 as previously discussed. 



FURTHER COMPARISON OF FOOD STUFFS 



It was thought advisable to continue this same comj)aiison 

 to determine if during a long period and a summer period 

 there were a substitute for oats for feeding hoises. Conse- 

 quL'ntl)', beginning April 10 the five college work horses were 

 continued with the grain mixtures fed during the winter 

 period. This was extended until October 9. Corn stover 

 was dropped from the rations and twelve pounds of timothy 

 hay were fed daily to each horse. Each animal was weighed 

 twice each week, but instead of giving the weighing for the 

 whole period the average for the first half and last half of 

 each month during the period is given. 



