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Prof. Atwater says, " There are two great sources of loss 

 in our common systems of feeding. One is that we often fail 

 to have enouijli albumenoids in the food to secure the most 

 complete digestion. Another is, that forage crops are not 

 cut when young and easily digested, but are allowed to stand 

 until they are nearly ripe, and much of their material has be- 

 come indigestible, and of course nearly useless as nourishing 

 food." 



I look upon the discovery of this loss in stock feeding, to- 

 gether with the discovery of how this loss may be saved, as 

 one of the greatest discoveries of modern times. 



Decorticated cotton seed meal and Huna^arian o-rass are 

 sources from which plenty of iilbumenoids may be drawn to 

 utilize our carbo-hydrates. 100 lbs. of the best cotton seed 

 meal has 28 lbs. of digestible albumenoids, and 17 of carbo- 

 hydrates. Now as it needs but 4 lbs., — even when used for 

 making milk, — of albumenoids, for its own carbo-hydrates, 

 it has 24 lbs. of surplus albumenoids in every hundred pounds, 

 that may be used to utilize the carbo-hydrates of crops defi- 

 cient in albumenoids. Take first quality salt hay, for exam- 

 ple, — it has 3.4 lbs. of digestible albumenoids, and 41.6 of 

 carbo-hydrates in 100 lbs. ; it needs, say 10 lbs. of albumenoids 

 to make its 41.6 lbs. carbo-hydrates available for making 

 milk, or about 6 lbs. in 100 short ; the 24 lbs. surplus in 100 

 lbs. of cotton-seed will supply what 400 lbs. of salt hay needs 

 to make it good milk-making food. 



Hungarian grass has nearly twice as much albumenoids as 

 it needs for its own carbo-hydrates ; therefore a ton of good 

 early cut Hungarian grass mixed with a ton of good salt hay, 

 will probably make as much milk as two tons of average Eng- 

 lish hay. 



There is much probability, as yet, about the proportions in 

 which to mix our crops to get the best results ; the quality of 

 crops vary so much when grown and harvested under so 

 many dilfereut conditious, that there will be many problems 



