MAIZE GRAIN AS FOOD 



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the average weight of the horses remained the same during CHAP, 

 the experiment, and the amount of work done did not XIV - 

 change, showing that the ration met the requirements of the 

 animals. 



In a second test the following ration was used : — 



Maize 



Oats 



Beans 



Bran 



Hay 



Straw 



Lbs. 



97 



6-8 



3'3 



o-g 



6-6 



13-2 



4°'5 



On this ration, not only did the animals continue to work as 

 before, but also gained in weight. 



In these experiments it was found that maize is best if 

 crushed before feeding to horses, and if crushed with the cobs 

 left in. " Corn-and-cob meal is considered a better feed than 

 pure corn meal on account of its higher content of cellulose, 

 which renders it more like oats. Thirty per cent of an oat 

 ration may be replaced by maize-and-cob meal." Similar re- 

 ports as to the availability of maize for horse-feeding are pub- 

 lished in regard to the Berlin Street Car Company [Nordd. 

 Landw., 1881, p. 141 ; Biederm. Centralbl., 1881, p. 768), 

 the Berlin mail-horse stables {Landw. Blatt. f. Oldenburg, 

 1880, p. 180), and the New York Omnibus Company {TJiur. 

 Ldw. Zeit., 1880, p. 16) ; see also the exhaustive report on the 

 subject by Bruckmuller on experiments conducted with army 

 horses under the auspices of the Austrian Government, in 

 Oest. Viertelj. f. Wiss. Vet. Kunde, 49 (1878), p. 1 ; Biederm. 

 CentralbL, 1878, p. 420. 



The Utah Station {Bull. $0) found that horses fed maize 

 and timothy hay did as well as those fed oats, clover, and 

 timothy hay ; also {Bull. 36) that maize sustained the weight 

 of horses better than oats. 



On the other hand, it is stated {Fiihling's Landw. Zeitung, 

 39, 1890, p. 63) that the stockholders of the London Omnibus 

 Company objected to the intensive feeding of maize to the 

 horses of the company " because the mortality had increased 

 with the extensive feeding of maize, and the horses seemed to 



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