THE SCIENCE AND PRACTICE OF 

 STOCK FEEDING. 



For the next two hundred days the subject of stock feeding 

 must necessarily occupy much of the time and attention of the 

 successful New Hampshire farmer, and as the importance of 

 this subject is often overlooked I will will briefly state the latest 

 available statistics on live stock.* 



There are within our State, to-day, not far from 60,000 

 horses, 20,000 oxen, 95,000 cows, 50,000 other cattle, and 150,- 

 000 sheep, and the success of the year's agricultural work de- 

 pends largely upon the profitable -feeding of these, for it is just 

 as important to dispose of the fodder economically as to produce 

 it cheaply. 



We will assume that the average horse weighs 1,000 pounds, 



the ox 1,400, the cow 900, other cattle 400, and the sheep 100. 



This gives us the following aggregate, live weight : 



60,000 horses, @ 1,000 lbs., 60,000,000 



20,000 oxen, @ 1,400 lbs., 28,000,000 



95,000 cows, @ 900 lbs., 85,500,000 



50,000 other cattle, @ 400 lbs., 20,000,000 



150,000 sheep, @ 100 lbs., 15,000,000 



Total weight of all neat stock, horses and sheep, 208,500,000 

 It has been found, by numerous experiments, that on an av 

 erage, it will require twenty pounds of hay, five pounds of corn 

 meal, and two pounds of cotton seed, or an equivalent of these, 

 d-iily for one thousand pounds of live weight, — this is necessa- 

 rily an average for horses, oxen, sheep, cows, and growing cat- 

 tle, — with this standard we find that the daily amount of hay 

 and grain required for the entire winter are as given below : 



Daily. For winter oE 200 days. 



Hay required, 2,085 tons, 417,000 tons. 



Corn meal, " S^^/i tons, 104,250 tons. 



Cottonseed, " 2085^ tons, 41,700 tons. 



*Report of State Board of Equalization, 1887. 



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