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and the lambs are in a more healthy condition than when fed 

 with other forages. There is nothing surprising in this, for the 

 simple reason that the milk is less subject to alteration even in 

 the udder than when siloed cossettes. are fed. 



When one substitutes dried cossettes for intensive fodders Actual economy, 

 there follows a much greater profit, as is also shown by the ex- 

 periments of Maercker and Morgen. In Germany, 100 kilos of 

 oats cost 17.8 marks and contain 8 per cent, of digestible nitro- 

 genous substances and 53.3 per cent, of digestible non-nitrogen- 

 ous elements. These may be replaced by 88.4 kilos of dried 

 cossettes and 7.6 kilos of cotton seed flour, costing 5.68 marks. 

 The profit is consequently 12. 11 marks, or 68 percent. Maercker 

 and Morgen show that in numerous rations, where this intensive 

 forage is used, it may be entirely replaced by the dried cos- 

 settes, to which other forages are added to make up the lacking 

 elements. 



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