rations which the use of these tables cannot better, yet the prob- 

 ability is that three-fourths would find by a very few minutes of 

 figuring that they have been feeding too much of the non-al- 

 buminoids, in many cases the nutritive ratio is as wide as 1:12. 

 As a rule we are too liberal in our use of corn meal which in 

 itself is lacking in albuminoids, but which is too often fed with 

 foods much more deficient in this same direction. 



If the foundation of our rations for milk was clover hay, then 

 we might well depend upon corn meal for our grain ration, but 

 with fodders whose nutritive ratio is from 10 to 20, that is, has 

 10 to 20 times as much digestible starch, sugar, fat etc., as of 

 albuminoids, it is poor economy to buy corn meal when there 

 are so many kinds of fodders in the market, like cotton seed, 

 gluten, linseed, middlings and shorts, which are rich in just 

 those parts in which the hay, ensilage, corn fodder, etc., are lack- 

 ing. If the farmers of this state would buy less corn meal and 

 more of the foods above mentioned a considerable saving might 

 be brought about in the cost of the ration, for the reason that 

 with these foods much of the straw, swale hay and other coarse 

 fodders might be substituted in place of the English hay which 

 it is now necessary to feed. By way of illustrating this I will 

 give two rations, which will show the force of what has been said 



No. I. 



lbs. qts. Albuminoids Non-albuminoids. 



Mixed hay, 25 .93 11.9 



Corn meal, 6 8 .48 4.2 



Required by German standard. 



No 

 Mixed hay, 10 



Swale hay, 10 



Cotton seed, 4 



Shorts, 2 



Middlings, 3 



Furnished, 2.51 13-79 



Required by German standard, 2.50 ^3-5° 



If we call the average value of market hay in New Hampshire 

 $15, per ton Swale hay $8. Cottonseed $25, Corn meal $20, Mid- 

 dlings ^22, and Shorts $20 ration No. 1, will cost 25 cents while 

 No. 2 will cost 22 cents, now it will be seen at once that No, a 



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