8 AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION. [Jan. 



The question of usins; skim milk supplemented in various 

 ways for the production of veal has been studied in a series 

 of experiments with calves. 



The digestion experiments with sheep, for the purpose of 

 ascertaining the rate of digestibility of the various food con- 

 stituents of some new coarse and fine feed stuffs peculiar 

 to our markets, have been materially increased in number. 

 The detailed record of these and other observations of 

 interest in this connection, which have been under the 

 special supervision of Dr. J. B. Lindsey, associate chemist 

 of the Experiment Station, furnishes the first part of the 

 accompanying annual report, under the following head- 



ings : 



P AK T I. 



» Feeding Experiments. 



I. A practical talk about feeding. 

 II. Objects of the different experiments. 

 III. Feeding experiments with milch cows (two). 

 IV. Hay substitutes. 

 V. The Babcock v. the space system, etc. 

 VI. Feeding experiment with steers. 

 VII. Feeding calves for veal. 

 VIII. Digestion experiments, 



1. Digestion experiments with sheep. 



2. The digestibility of the pentosans. 



The experiments in the field and in the vegetation house 

 have been quite numerous and of a varying character. 

 Some of them are a continuation of those of former years, 

 while others are new. Much attention has Ijeen devoted to 

 the raising of nutritious forage crops fit for green fodder, 

 hay and ensilage ; the results are gratifying, and cannot fail 

 to exert a desirable influence on the future supply of coarse 

 fodder for farm live stock, as far as quantity as well as cost 

 of production and valuable composition is concerned. The 

 o-ood success noticed in the field during the first part of the 

 summer season was in some instances seriously checked by 

 a severe drought during the month of August. A descrip- 

 tion of the different experiments carried on in this connec- 

 tion by the writer forms the second part of the succeeding 

 annual report, under the following-named headings : — 



