Fodder ration No. 3, 8, 10, 1 1 and 14 deserve in particular 



attention for trials. The renoainder, although in some instances not 



without a special interest, is published to illustrate our essential 

 variations in the daily diet used. 



TABULAR STATEMENT OF THE COST PER DAY OE THE 

 ABOVE MENTIONED FODDER COMBINATIONS. 



Considering the previously described fodder combinations from a 

 mere financial standpoint^ they rank with reference to their net cost, 

 beginning with the lowest^ as follows: — 11, 10, 3, 2, 8, 12, 14, 5, 1, 

 7, 6, 4, 13, 9. A close inquiry into the character of the coarser or 

 bulky part of the various fodder compositions cannot fail to 

 show that wherever fodder corn, corn stover or corn ensilage 

 have been fed in part or in the whole as a substitute for English 

 hay, in connection with the same kind and amount of grain feed, the 

 commercial value of the manurial refuse obtainable has been but 

 slightly if any affected ; while the net cost of the daily feed of the 

 animals on trial has been materially reduced (from \ io \). It seems 

 scarcely necessary to mention here, that only equally well prepared 

 fodder articles are considered in the discussion. 



Sugar beets compared well, as far as net cost is concerned, with 

 good corn ensilage when fed in quantities of from twenty to twenty- 

 five pounds of the former in place of from thirty to thirty-five pounds 

 of the latter. In view of these facts it becomes a question of first 

 importance to ascertain to what extent it will be judicious, as far as 

 their feeding effect is concerned, to advocate the substitution of dry 



