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strongly emphasized during the past year. Hay has been 

 selling for #20 per ton upward, when the standard stock 

 feeds, such as bran, corn meal, and oatfeed could be bought 

 for from f 12 to -f 14 per ton. This disparity is even more 

 evident, when it is considered that a ton of grain has at 

 least double the nutriment in it that there is in an equal 

 weight of hay. Plainly the grain is by all odds far the 

 cheaper food, and the more hay the farmer can save under 

 such market conditions the better it will be for him. 

 Some of the more bulky grain feeds, such as bran and oat- 

 feed may well be fed more largely, as partial hay substi- 

 tutes ; and corn fodder, millet hay, etc., can be employed 

 to take the place of a part of the regular hay rations. 



Eight pounds of hay per day, divided into two or three 

 feeds, should be a plenty for a horse. The cow certainly 

 needs more coarse fodder than the horse, probably as much 

 as fifteen to twenty pounds per day ; but corn fodder, 

 ensilage, oat straw and millet may be used very largely 

 instead of English hay. The value of good, bright corn 

 stalks as fodder is too lightly estimated. Cut when the ears 

 are right for boiling, carefully and rapidly cured, and stored 

 away from the weather as soon as possible, the fodder of 

 sweet corn is certainly worthy of every farmer's considera- 

 tion. Treat it the same as good hay ; do not allow it to 

 stand in the field, exposed to rains, frosts, and snows ; and 

 it will approach ver}-^ closely in feeding value to good 

 timothy liay. 



WHEAT. 



Two or three years ago feeders were confronted with a 

 condition never before met, viz. : wheat cheaper pound for 

 pound than corn or oats. Therefore the question came up 

 for practical test as to Avhether wheat, so natural and excel- 

 lent a food for man, was not equally good for live stock in 



