M as9A^wo8Ict"^sp Sty^TE 



Agricultural ;B™fiT Station. 



BXJLLETIlsr ISTO. 4S. 



NOVEMBER, 1892. 



On Fodder Articles and Fodder Supplies. 



1. Home Raised Fodder Articles. 



2. Commercial Feed Stuffs. 



The fodder articles used in the preparation and compounding of 

 the daily diet of all kinds and conditions of farm live stock are, as a 

 rule, obtained from two distinctly different sources. They are either 

 raised upon the farm and are used usually without any material 

 change in composition ; or they are bought in the general market, and 

 are in that case usually the by-products or waste materials of various 

 other branches of industry, as oil works, flour mills, starch works, 

 glucose factories, breweries, etc., etc. 



The home raised fodder crops furnish in the majority of cases the 

 coarse fodder constituent of the daily diet, while the waste or by- 

 products of other industries, furnish the fine or grain feed portion of 

 the daily fodder rations. A rational and economical system of stock 

 feeding has assigned to each of these two groups of feed stuffs its 

 proper position in the daily diet of all kinds of farm live stock, with 

 special reference to their general character, adaptation and composi- 

 tion, as well as to good economy and particular efficiency. 



A liberal and economical supply of both classes of fodder articles 

 is to-day recognized as an indispensable requirement of an economi- 

 cal system of stock feeding. To meet oui present market condition 

 of the products of the dairy and of the meat supply with any reason- 

 able prospect of a satisfactory compensation for capital invested and 

 labor spent calls, if possible, for cheaper and more efficient fodder 

 rations than in the majority of instances are in current use. 



