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and the best salt hay and meadow hay have about 3 lbs. 6 

 lbs. of albumenoids in 100 lbs. is mainly what makes the best 

 upland hay better than the best salt hay. Medium quality of 

 upland has 5.4 lbs. of albumenoids, 41.1 of carbo-hydrates, 

 ratio about 1 to 8, — the proportion that is right to keep dry 

 stock in fair condition. Practice for years has proved that 

 dry stock will do very well on plenty of medium quality up- 

 land hay. As salt and meadow hay need but two lbs. addi- 

 tional albumenoids per 100 lbs. to make the ratio right for 

 dry stock, and as cotton seed meal has 26 lbs. in 100 to spare, 

 if fed to dry stock, it follows that 1300 lbs. of salt hay, or 

 good river meadow hay, mixed with 100 lbs. of cotton seed 

 meal, is equal to 1400 lbs. of medium quality upland hay. If 

 this is so, — and I ask the farmers of Essex County to prove 

 that it is or is not, — then it must be economy for those farm- 

 ers who have been in the habit of wintering their stock on 

 salt and meadow hay, and have them very poor in the spring, 

 to sell part of their hay, buy cotton seed, utilize the carbo- 

 hydrates of what they do feed, and have their stock fat, sleek, 

 healthy and happy, profitable to their owners, and a credit to 

 the county. If this essay shall be the means of leading one 

 farmer to feed his stock so as to better supply their wants 

 and make them more comfortable, the writer will be well 

 paid. It is well to know the conditions under "which wheat 

 bran is more economical than corn meal. 



When they are fed so as to utilize all their nutritious ele- 

 ments, their value is as five to seven; thus, if wheat bran is 

 worth $20 per ton, corn meal is worth $28 per ton ; but as the 

 bran has a surplus of albumenoids, there may be conditions 

 in which a ton of wheat bran will make more milk than a ton 

 of meal ; thus the farmer needs to know the composition of 

 the material he is to feed with his grain, before he can tell 

 which it is best for him to buy, at the market price. 



Knowledge of how and when to use roots for stock, is im- 

 portant. To feed any of the beet family with average quality 



