PRESERVATION EOT .STOCK ROOD 



For horses moderately worked 

 ,, horses heavily worked 

 ,, cows giving little milk 

 ,, cows giving much milk 

 sheep for wool production 

 fattening sheep, cattle, and pi^ 

 ,, laying hens or ducks . 



Ingle (2 and 3) notes that working horses or mules 

 fed upon an exclusive diet of maize grain and oat-hay are 

 receiving either too little nitrogenous matter for their require- 

 ments, or, if they secure the requisite amount by eating more 

 food, are taking more fats and carbohydrates than they require. 

 This is, therefore, a wasteful method of feeding, and is likely 

 also to injure the health of the animals. Ingle recommends, 

 not the reduction of the amount of maize grain, but the sub- 

 stitution for a portion of the oat-hay of some foodstuff with a 

 "narrower" albuminoid ratio, i.e. of some product richer in 

 nitrogenous material, such as teff grass, lucerne, velvet-bean 

 hay, peanut hay, maize forage, maize stover, soybeans, peas, 

 beans, or the various oilcakes. Tn other words, we should not 

 — as we are too apt to do — run to the extreme of condemning 

 maize grain because it is too "broad" a ration to be used 

 alone, but should " narrow it dozen " by the addition of suit- 

 able " balancing " material. 



J2". Nutritive Ratios of some Foodstuffs. — Ingle has also 

 given the following list of nutritive ratios : — 



Table CXXX. 



NUTRITIVE RATIOS OF DIFFERENT FOODSTUFFS. 



Maize (" bread " or " flour-maize" ; Transvaal grown' 



Maize (dent; Transvaal grown) 



Maize (flint; Transvaal grown) . 



Kaffir corn 



Oat grain . 



Wheat grain 



Barley grain 



Buckwheat 



Millet (grain) 



Linseed 



Peas . 



Soybeans . 



Horsebeans 



Cowpeas 



Linseed cake 



Coconut cake 



48* 



g-0 



Q-2 



8-o 

 8-2 

 6-0 

 6-4 

 6-0 

 6-i 

 57 

 5' 1 

 27 



2*0 



3'2 



