is secured, but *s a general rule, the more coarse fodder used 

 the greater should be the amount of cottonseed, linseed, gluten 

 or shorts in the grain ration, and the less the amount of corn 

 meal. Now let us see how the hay and straw framework would 

 balance if, as is too often the case, only corn meal is used. 



A lu 1 Carbo-hydrate 



equivalence. 

 Lbs. Lbs. 



\2)4 pounds mixed hay, . 0.47 5.95 



5 pounds oat straw, 0.07 2.17 



5^ pounds corn meal, .44 4.05 



Furnished, 0.9S 12.17 



Required, 2.25 12.15 



Deficiency of albuminoids, 1.27 



This ration gives us a sufficient supply of starch, sugar, fat, 

 etc., but less than % the required amount of albuminoids, if the 

 German experiments are worth anything, they show that il is 

 poor policy to use corn meal alone as a grain ration, for English 

 hay and coarse fodders. Once more let us see what would re- 

 sult if we take a sufficient quantity of corn meal to get the re- 

 quired amount of albuminoids : 



i2yi pounds hay, 

 5 pounds oat stram, 

 22 pounds corn meal. 



Furnished, 

 Required, 



Excess of non-nitrogeous matter, 11.72 



These two rations show very forcibly that either the practice 

 of feeding corn meal alone, with hay and straw, is a bad one, or 

 the feeding standards are worthless. 



It will be noticed, that the proportions given on page — , 

 have 1000 for their first term, this must always be so because 

 the tables are computed for animals weighing 1000 pounds, this 

 being so the determination of what a given animal requires, 

 when its weight is known is very simple. 



Rule for detenn'ming^ the digestible matter required by an 

 animal of any weight : Multiply the number of pounds of albuini-' 



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