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FARMER'S CYCLOPEDIA OF LIVE STOCK 



for a nutritive ratio of 1 :5 and with the 

 feeds on hand the nearest the feeder 

 could get to this was 1 :7.5, should he 

 sell part of his feed of one kind and 

 buy feed with a narrower nutritive 

 ratio of another? That depends. The 

 matter is a business one. It might not 

 pay, financially, to haul one feed to 

 town and bring back another, even 

 though his cows gave a little more 

 milk with a more balanced ration or 

 made a more rapid development. The 

 feeder will have to figure this out for 



himself, taking into consideration the 

 relative cost of feeds, nearness to 

 market, price of finished product, etc. 

 Literatuz'e — Some of the more recent 

 popular books on feeding live stock are 

 as follows: Feeds and Feeding by W. 

 A. Henry; The Feeding of Animals by 

 W. H. Jordan ; The Principles of Animal 

 Nutrition by H. P. Armsby (1903); 

 Profitable Stock Feeding by H. E. Smith 

 (1900) ; Die Ernahrung der Landwirt- 

 schaftlichen Nutztiere by O. Kellner 

 (Paul Parey, Berlin, 1905). 



Tabic 1. 



PERCENTAGE COMPOSITION OF AMERICAN FEEDING 

 Average of Many Analyses. 



Water 



Acorns, fresh _. 55.3 



white oak — 27.0 



Alfalfa, green fodder 71.8 



hay 8.4 



meal 10.9 



Alfilaria SO.O 



Alk'li mead'w grass (Puccinrllia airo'uhs) 4S.0 



" dry 13.4 



Almond hulls 4.8 



Apples, fresh S4.0 



Apple pomace 72.0 



silage SO.O 



American poultry food 9.1 



Animal meal 5.7 



Artichokes (Jerusalem) tubers 78.0 



Atlas gluten, feed or meal ^_7.3 



Barley silage 75.0 



straw 8.3 



" green forage 82.< > 



hay 10.6 



" grain 10.9 



" " naked or bald 9.4 



meal 119 



" bran 7.0 



" screenings 12.2 



" malt sprouts 10.2 



brewers' grains, wet 7."). 7 



dry S.O 



feed 9.5 



grass, wild (Hordeum jubatum) hay 9.7 



Beans, Adzuki 15.8 



Carob (Beans and pods) 14.0 



" " grain 19.8 



Navy, field 12.0 



" Horse, fresh 84.2 



straw 9.2 



" Lima, straw 10.0 



" Mesquite, (Prosopis juliflora) 5.0 



Tornillo, (Prosopis pubrscens) . . . . 5.1 



Beets, red 88.5 



Beggarweed, hay 9.2 



Bermuda grass, in bloom 71.7 



Blomo feed 16.8 



Blood molasses feed 5.7 



meal 9.0 



" dried 8.5 



Blue grass, Kentucky, hay 21.0 



joint, hay 6.8 



Bone, boiled beef 5.7 



meal (Bowker's) — 



fresh 34.0 



" cut 26.3 



Brewers' grains (beer), fresh 77.0 



" " dry 7.0 



