1 4 Soiling. 



the same weight of cotton -seed meal is worth 

 $23. Clover hay is worth more than timothy, 

 both as a food for animals and plants. The particu- 

 lar value of timothy hay for horses is that it con- 

 tains a larger percentage of carbohydrates (muscle- 

 forming food), and is, therefore, better for animals 

 requiring muscular exercise than clover which con- 

 tains more fat. I wish to call your attention to 

 green lucern, oats, and peas cut in blossom. Also 

 rye, and especially rape, of which I shall have con- 

 siderable to say under the head of crops for soiling 

 sheep. 



There are many interesting facts to be found in 

 the tables, which I have not space to enlarge upon, 

 but which I cannot too strongly recommend the 

 reader (not already familiar with the facts they set 

 forth) to study carefully. By so doing a person 

 may make his selections of feeds with economy. 

 For instance, he might well afford to sell corn and 

 buy oil meal, cotton-seed meal or wheat bran. 



Personally I have great dislike to feeding corn- 

 meal to any degree of excess, even to hogs. Fed to 

 dairy cows, I believe, it has done a great deal to 

 ruin what might otherwise have been a good dairy 

 animal by making it a beefer. By feeding it to 

 dairy cows before their calf is born, the calf is 

 brought into the world with a greater tendency to 

 fatten than its mother had. And afterward, when 

 they reach their maturity, it helps them along in the 

 same direction toward completing their ruin as high- 

 class dairy cattle, while in beefers it makes tallow 



