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client of fodder rations for milch cows. For details on tiiis point, 

 see Feeding Experiments with Milch Cows, in our Fourth aud Fifth 

 Annual Report. 



525. GROUND OAT FEED. 



Sent on from Salem, Mass. 



PER CENT. 



100.00 

 The article is evidently a compound containing admixtures which 

 are richer in nitrogenous matter and fat than oats. A mere analysis 

 of a compound commercial fodder article is only of interest to the 

 practical farmer when the amount and kind of ingredients which 

 serve in its 2^^'^P(^^'cit^on are well known. It is not safe as a rule to 

 invest to any extent in compound commercial fodder articles without 

 feeling well satisfied concerning the character of its various ingre- 

 dients. 



526. PROVENDER. 



From Amherst Mill 



100.00 

 Nutritive Ratio, 1 : 7.56. 

 This article is according to stateiuiiiit a mixture of 450 pounds of 

 corn, 125 pounds of oats and 100 pounds of wheat bran. 



