900 



QUALITY OF FEEDS 



The rations fed were composed of various combinations of all 

 or part of the following feeds : shelled corn, oats, cottonseed meal, 

 clover hay, alfalfa hay, oat straw, and corn silage. The corn and 

 oats were of excellent quality. The cottonseed meal was choice 

 grade guaranteed to contain 41 per cent, crude protein and 8 per 

 cent. fat. The clover hay was of fair quality and contained a slight 

 mixture of timothy. The alfalfa hay was grown in the vicinity of 

 Lafayette, was well cured of the second cutting but was very fine 

 on account of drouth preventing a rank growth. Both clover and 

 alfalfa hay were baled. The silage was produced from corn grown 

 in the Waba'sh bottom, yielding approximately thirty-five bushels 

 per acre. The corn was well matured when put into the silo, all 

 of the husks and more than half the blades being brown at this 

 time. This produced a silage containing approximately 38 per cent, 

 dry matter. Care was taken at all times that no moldy silage or 

 spoiled silage was fed. 



PRICES OF FEEDS 



The prices of corn used in presenting financial results are 

 based on the actual price at the time the experiment was in progress. 

 The average price of corn at the Lafayette elevators was as fol- 

 lows: first month, 55.3 cents; second month, 57.8 cents; third 

 month 64.3 cents per bushel ; oats are valued at 48 cents per bushel ; 

 cottonseed meal at $28.00 per ton; clover hay at $16.00 per ton; 

 alfalfa hay at $18.00 per ton ; oat straw at $6.00 per ton ; and corn 

 silage at $5.00 per ton. All financial statements are based on the 

 principle that the value of the manure offsets the labor of feeding. 





