No. 4.] 



SALT ^lARSH HAY. 



37 



At the Wisconsin Experiment Station (1893), as a result 

 of extended inquiry among the best farmers, it was found 

 that a nutritive ratio of 1 : 7 was most profitable. 



Tliese facts do not at all afiect the principle involved, but 

 simj^ly show that for American conditions the standard 

 should be wider than for German ; and if the American farmer 

 feeds a ration containing from two to two and one-quarter 

 pounds of digestible albuminoids and from thirteen and three- 

 quarters to fourteen pounds of non-albuminoids, he will be 

 very close to the perfect practical ration. 



How SHALL THE PRACTICAL FARMER MAKE USE OF THE 



Experience or Others? 



No sreat o-ood can come from the feeding standards alone ; 

 to be sure, they tell what the cow or ox or hog requires, but 

 how to supply this amount and kind is a question not yet 

 answered, and it is to this that I would now direct your 

 attention. 



We must first have a table showing the composition of 

 foods ; the following is based upon American analyses, and 

 gives us about all the foods commonly found on New Eng- 

 land farms. 



Ti^iat Fodders contain. 



100 Pounds of 



Mixed ha}', 



Clover hay, 



Oat straw, . 



Corn fodder. 



Ensilage, . 



Corn meal, 



Linseed (new process). 



Cotton-seed, 



Shorts, 



Middlings, . 



Gluten, 



Skim-milk, 



Wheat, 



Salt luiirsh hay, 



Digestible. 



Albuminoids. 



3.71 



7.53 



1.45 



2.15 



1.47 



7.78 



28.57 



31.36 



13.26 



13.35 



25.14 



3.23 



9.50 



2.27 



Non- 

 Albuminolds. 



47.61 

 43.60 

 43.31 

 41.38 

 14.80 

 71.60 

 44.30 

 42.26 

 52.70 

 57.72 

 61.90 

 6.94 

 65.65 

 45.83 



Nutritive 

 Ratio. 



12.8 

 5.7 



30 



19 



10 

 9. 

 1. 

 1. 

 4 



4.3 

 2.4 

 2.1 

 6.9 



20 



.2 

 .5 

 .3 



