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Feeds and Fending. 



meal, wheat bran and oil meal were used. Tlie trial contina«d[ 

 six months with the results reported in the tables below: 



Feeding low-priced rations to horses — N^ew Jersey Station. 

 Lot I. Ration: Dried brewers' grains and com meal. 



Lot IL Ration: Corn meal, wheat bran and oU meal. 



Tlie horses held their own in weight, and appeared in satis- 

 factory condition throughout the whole period. The prices al- 

 lowed for feed in the above tables are as follows: Timothy hay, 

 $18; wheat bran, $17.50; corn meal, $22; dried brewers' grains. 

 $17; linseed meal, $29. At these prices the cost of the rations 

 was lowest where dried brewers' grains were used, and highest 

 where wheat bran and oil meal were fed. A gardener living near 

 the Station, guided by its teachings, fed a ration similar to No. 1 

 with success, and effected a saving in his feed bills for the year 

 of about $150 over previous cost under the customary feeding of 

 the vicinity. Voorhees concludes: "That the kind and quality 

 of specific nutrients contained in feeds, and not their names, 

 should guide in the preparation of rations. That while oats are 

 an excellent feed, it is not alone because they are oats, but 

 because of the amount and proportion of the more valuable 

 nutrients, fat and protein, contained in them. That dried brew- 

 ers' giaius are a wholesome, nutritious and palatable horse feed, 

 and at present prices they may be substituted for oats and a de- 

 cided saving made in the cost of the ration." (183) 



