Rye, vetch and oats, peas and oats, part of soja bean, of corn and 

 of seri'adella, have been fed as green fodder, and the remainder of 

 green corn and soja bean, serradelhi and Hungarian, are on hand in 

 silos as mixed ensilage for winter use. 



2. COMMERCIAL FP:ED STUFFS. 



The name commercial feedstuff or concentrated commercial 

 feedstuffs is usually applied to a class of substances offered for sale 

 in our markets, which in the majority of cases are the waste or by- 

 products of other branches of industry. Some of these articles as 

 brans, middlings and oilcakes have been for years quite generally 

 used in the daily diet of all'kinds of farm, livestock ; others as the 

 gluten meal, gluten feed, corn germ meal, dried brewer's grain, malt 

 sprouts, etc. are but recently more generally offered for a similar 

 purpose. 



Their importance as an additional valuable fodder supply for the 

 support of every branch of animal industry on ihe farm and elsewhere 

 has become from year to year more conspicuous, on account of a 

 marked increase of the supply of well-known articles as well as of 

 the introduction of many new kinds. Their consumption is appar- 

 ently daily increasing and seems to keep step with the supply. 



The special value claimed for commercial feedstuff's as an iii;por- 

 tant source of fodder supply rests in the main on their fitness to sup- 

 plement advantageously our coarse home-raised fodder crop in the 

 interest of a higher feeding effect and of a better economy. A tre- 

 queutly good mechanical condition as well as an exceptionally valu- 

 able chemical composition adapt many of them in a high degree for 

 that purpose. 



As no single farm crop or any part of them has been found to sup- 

 ply economically and efficiently to any considerable extent the par- 

 ticular wants of food of our various kinds ol farm livestock to secure 

 the best possible results, it becomes a matter of first importance 

 from a mere financial standpoint to know how to supplement our cur- 

 rent farm crops — to meet the wants of each kind of animals under 

 various circumstances in a desirable degree. To secure the highest 

 feeding effect of each fodder article raised upon the farm is most 

 desirable in the interest of good economy. 



Practical experience in the dairy has thus far abundantly shown 

 that the efficiency of a daily diet does not so much depend on the 



