20 AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION. 



Plan : Ten steers about eighteen months old, divided into five lots. 



Lot 1. Maintenance ration, hay. 



Lot 2. Ration for moderate grovth, hay aai corn meal. 



Lot 3. Ration for moderate growth, hay, corn meal and cotton 

 seed meal. 



Lot 4. Ration for rapid growth, hay, corn meal and cotton seed 

 meal. 



Lot 5. Straw substituted for hay. 



Time : Fall and winter, 1886-7. 



Results published: Report M. E. S., 1886-7, pp. 89-93. 



{16) Feeding Experiment. 



Object: The comparative value of whole corn and corn meal for 

 feeding hogs. 



Plan : Two lots of pigs, three in each lot ; first period lot 1 fed 

 whole corn, lot 2 fed same weight corn meal ; second period lot 1 

 fed corn meal ; lot 2 fed whole corn. In each period same quantity 

 of potatoes and skimmed milk fed each lot. 



Time : Fall and winter, 1886-7. 



Results published: Report M. E. S., 1886-7, pp. 97-99. 



{17) Feeding Experiment. 



Object : The comparative feeding value of corn meal and corn- 

 and cob meal for hogs. 



Plan : The feeding of two lots of pigs, three in each lot ; lot 3 

 received corn meal, potatoes and milk, and lot 4, a weight of corn- 

 cob meal containing same amount of kernel as the pure meal of lot 

 3, and same amount of potatoes and milk. 



Time : Winter of 1887. 



Results published: Report M. E. S , 1886-7, pp. 99, 100. 



{18) Feeding Experiment. 



Object: The relative feeding value of raw and boiled potatoes. 



Plan : Two lots, of three pigs each, to be fed in same weights of 

 potatoes, corn meal and skimmed milk, only with one lot the pota- 

 toes to be boiled before feeding. 



Time : Winter of 1886-7. 



Results published: Report M. E. S., 1886-7, pp. 100, 101. 



{19) Feeding Experiment. 



Object : The profitable composition of rations for growing poultry. 

 Plan : The feeding of a pure corn ration against a ration consist- 



