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Their contemporary 

 Name of Feed Stuflf. Market cost Manurial value 



(per ton) (per ton) 



Corn stover, 5.00 3.75 



Corn ensilage, 2.50 1.53 



Sugar beets, 5.00 1.21 



Mangold roots, 4.00 1.01 



The above stated maiket cost is subject to periodical changes ; and 

 the commercial value of their fertilizing constituents varies more or 

 less with the quality of each kind. This feature does not affect 

 materially the force of the point made. 



A due ap|)reciation of the previously pointed out favorable features 

 regarding the peculiar character of a numerous class of comnuMcial 

 feed stuffs has caused a steady increase in their consumption on the 

 farm and elsewhere. The money invested by farmers for securing 

 commercial feed stuffs as an additional food supply for home consump- 

 tion, exceeds to-day many times the amoxmt spent for commercial 

 fertilizers. 



As no single commercial feed stuff can be expected to meet our 

 present demand for these articles, nor can claim to be the most 

 economical one under varying market conditions, and with due appre- 

 ciation of the varying character of our home raised fodder supply, it 

 is but proper that every new addition in suitable kinds should receive 

 a deserved attention, and subsequently an actual trial to ascertain 

 their individual merits. 



A considerable number of these feed stuffs have already been 

 tried at this station during past years in connection with our 

 feeding experiments with milch cows, growing steers, lambs, and 

 pigs, as may have been noticed in our periodical reports ; others al-e 

 at present on trial. The articles used on those occasions were, as a 

 rule, bought in the general market. A still larger number of different 

 kinds have been analyized by us at the request of farmers and dealers 

 in feed stuffs ; the samples were usually sent on for that purpose. In 

 regard to the former there can be no reasonable doubt about their 

 identity ; as far as the latter are concerned, the responsibility of 

 furnishing fair representative samples rests in some instances with 

 the parties asking for the analyses. 



The results of our analyses of commercial feed stuffs are embodied 

 in the subsequent tabular statement. The record of the analyses is 

 here purposely confined to the extremes noticed, as far as the per- 

 centage of /a? and nitrogen containing orgviuxc matter or crude protein 

 are concerned, to engage a special attention in that direction. 



