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times the country is therefore deficient in its corn supply and the 

 price of that grain advances. On the other hand wheat is plentiful 

 and sells at- a low figure. At the time this experiment was made 

 corn was selling at ten cents more per hundred pounds than Avheat 

 meal and dealers in this section said they were selling more wheat 

 for feed than corn, and farmers naturally were asking which was 

 the more economical grain to feed at those prices. Chemical analysis 

 shows wheat to be slightly richer in protein and to contain on the 

 average less moisture than corn meal. We should therefore consider 

 it worth more pound for pound to feed and the following data would 

 seem to sustain that position: 



THE TWO RATIONS EED DAILY. 

 Ration I. Ration II. 



Timothy hay, 18 pounds. Timothy hay, 18 pounds. 



Wheat meal, 5 pounds. Corn meal, 5 pounds. 



Cotton seed meal, 2 pounds. Cotton seed meal, 2 pounds. 



TABLE VIII. 



COMPOSITION OF FOODS USED. 



*£ 



!5 Cj_| © 



$ 



Timothy hay 



Wheat meal 



Corn meal 



Cotton seed meal 



13. IS 

 9.29 

 14.98 



S.17 



4.37 

 2.10 

 1.42 

 7.17 



5.87 

 12.81 



9.17 

 42.31 



29.-03 

 2.62 

 1.90 

 5.62 



45. OS 

 71.06 

 68.76 

 23.65 



2.47 

 2.12 

 3.77 

 13. OS 



TABLE IX. 

 FOOD CONSUMED BY EACH COW FOR EACH PERIOD OF TWENTY ONE DAYS. 



Period I. 



Period II. 



Period III. 



Timothy hay 34S lbs 



Wheat meal 105 lbs 



Cotton seed meal 42 lbs 



Timothy hay 348 lbs. . . . 



Corn meal 105 lbs 



Cotton seed meal 42 lbs 



Timothy hay 34S lbs. 

 Wheat meal 105 lbs. 

 Cotton seed meal 42 lbs. 



