appetite of each animal. The composition of the daily fodder rations 

 used during the first winter season, 1889-1890, differed materially 

 from those used during the second winter season, 1890-1891. This 

 circumstance renders it advisable in the interest of a due apprecia- 

 tion of the feeding results in different stages of the trial, to state our 

 results with reference to its three distinctly different feeding periods, 

 namely, feeding record of first winter season, of summer pasturing, 

 and of second winter season. 



1. Feeding Record oj First Winter Season. 



December 17th, 1889, to May 9th, 1890. 



Coarse fodder articles : Dry fodder corn, corn ensilage, corn stover 

 and sugar beets. Fine fodder articles : Wheat bran, Chicago gluten 

 meal, old process linseed meal, and corn and cob meal. 



Local Market Value per Ton of the Various Articles of Fodder used, 



1889-1890. 

 Wheat bran. 

 Gluten meal, Chicago, 

 Old process linseed meal. 

 Corn and cob meal. 

 Corn stover. 

 Corn ensilage, 

 Corn fodder. 

 Sugar beets. 



$16 50 



23 00 



27 50 



16 50 



5 00 



2 75 



7 50 



5 00 



