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cloyer-hay, then we must add some very nitrogenous food 

 to make up that element. Straw might substitute one-half 

 of the clover-hay. But if we take ration No. 4 and omit 

 3 Ibs. of corn-meal and make the corn-sugar meal 50 Ibs., it 

 will be a well-balanced ration and cost one cent less. 



It is evident that the feeder can make a profitable use of 

 this refuse when he can get it at about the price men- 

 tioned, or lower; but if he attempts to feed this sugar- 

 meal with only straw, or some food poor in albuminoids, 

 he will not succeed in the end. A little dry, ground fish 

 scrap say 2 Ibs. per day would balance the ration with 

 sugar-meal and straw. The reader will see that these com- 

 binations may be very numerous. Where oats are cheap, a 

 few quarts would balance this ration with straw or corn- 

 fodder. Malt sprouts are often purchasable at 40 cents 

 per hundred pounds, in which case this may be the cheap- 

 est mixture, as in ration 4. Marsh hay is very plenty in 

 many places, and may be fed to fattening cattle, to good 

 advantage, with sugar-meal and 2 Ibs. of linseed or cotton- 

 seed meal. It is only profitable to use the decorticated 

 cotton-seed cake or meal. This marsh hay is much better 

 than straw, as it contains three times the proportion of 

 albuminoids contained in straw, and more fat. 



It will also be noticed, from tables given, that weeds can 

 be turned to account. Even the white daisy, when cut 

 before blossoming, is nutritious food, and the analysis 

 shows it to be quite superior to the best cured corn-fodder. 

 It is a vile weed when suffered to ripen ; but, if cut when 

 young and tender, makes a good fodder. 



LINSEED AND COTTON-SEED CAKE. 



These waste products, properly utilized in growing beef 

 and dairy products, represent a most important element in 

 American agriculture. The extensive purchase of these 

 products by English farmers during the last 50 years has 



