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raent varied seriously in regard lo market cost as well as to net cost. 

 To what particular circumstance this result is due deserves some 

 special attention. Whether it is due to the cost of the grain feed or 

 to that of the coarse feed, and to what extent in either case, is shown 

 in the subsequent tabular statement, 



STATEMENT OF THE COST OF FINE AND COARSE FEED 



PORTION OF THE DAILY FODDER RATION USED. 

 FINE FEED. 



The market cost of our grain feed ration is materially the same 

 in all cases ; the high manurial value of maize feed and cotton seed 

 meal (II, III, IV, V), as compared with that of corn meal (I), 

 makes the net cost of the former two cents less than that of the latter. 

 The pecuniary advantages arising from an intelligent use of corn 

 stover and corn ensilage in the dairy industry in place of English 

 hay deserves particular attention. In sight of these results it may 

 not be out of place to repeat a former advice : — 



'' The high market price of two of our most prominent home raised 

 coarse fodder articles, first and second cut of upland meadow, P^nglish 

 hay and rowen, affects seriously the degree of our financial results 

 in the production of milk, as far as the cost of feed is concerned. 

 We are in need of a cheaper source of supply of coarse fodder sub- 

 stances, than a considerable proportion of our grass lands, pastures 

 and meadows, in their present state of productiveness, can claim to 



