purposes; The next column gives this same digestible matter 

 grouped into albuminoids, and non albuminoids. The early 

 and late cut hay were nearly clear Timothy or Herdsgrass the 

 former cut July 10 just as it was going out of bloom the latter 

 cut July 31, the seed being well filled but not hard; it must be 

 remembered that the season of '8S was very wet and grass was 

 from 8 to todays behind its ordinary time of blooming and 

 maturity. 



It will be noticed that these analyses vary in some cases 

 from those of similiar foods in'table II but the variations are 

 not very wide. The following table shows in condensed form 

 the analyses above given in detail. 



Early cut hay (Timothy), 



Late cut hay (Timothy), 



Corn meal. 



Middlings, 



Shorts, 



Cotton seed meal, 



Gluten, 



Table IV gives the full details of an experiment comparing 

 corn meal, cotton seed meal, and shorts. The rations in each 

 case were richer in albuminoids than is believed to be nee 

 essary, but it will be noticed that those in which ccrn meal is 

 used are in strict accord with the " German Standards," and 

 that the substitution of cotton seed for corn meal reduced the 

 ratio from 5.5 to 4.5 on an average, which is a very narrow ra- 

 tio. The object of this experiment was to determine, if possible, 

 whether an increase in albuminoids would increase the yield of 

 milk. Table IV shows the number of the period and the num- 

 ber of days in each period, as well as the dates. The name of 

 the cow and her breed is given in the left hand column, next 

 comes the kind of food used in the ration, and in the third col- 

 umn the amount of each substance fed daily, together with the 

 nutritive ratio of the food, while at the bottom of this column is 

 the amount of milk produced per period and per day ; the fourth, 

 fifth and sixth columns are repetitions of the third, except that 

 changes from corn meal to cotton seed, and the reverse, occur; 

 next comes the total milk for each cow for the whole time she 

 was in the experiment, followed by two colums dividing this to- 

 tal into two parts, one produced while corn meal was fed, the 



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