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Feeds and Feeding. 



was fed to eacli cow. Teu cows were included in the experiment, 

 with the daily yield of milk and fat as follows: 



Feeding timothy and meadow fox-tail hay to dairy cows — Mustiala 

 {Finland) Agricultural College. 



Daily yield. 



Milk. 



Fat. 



Per cent. fat. 



Timothy hay 



Alopecurus hay. 



Lbs. 



23.5 

 24.8 



Lbs. 



.71 



.77 



2.97 

 3.08 



The fox-tail hay produced 5.5 per cent, more milk ajid 8.4 per 

 cent, more fat than the timothy. 



652. Fodder corn compared with timothy hay. — At the Penn- 

 sylvania Station, i Hunt and Caldwell fed fodder corn and timothy 

 hay to cows to determine the relative merits of these two common 

 roughage crops. There were four cows in each lot, the trial last- 

 ing forty-five days, with the results shown in the table: 



Fodder com versus timothy hay — Pennsylvania Station. 



Cows fed 

 hay. 



Cows fed 

 fodder corn. 



Hay or fodder eaten 



Ground oats eaten 



Bran eaten 



Total milk yielded 



Total fat yielded 



Gain or loss of cows in weight. 



Lbs. 



4,237 

 640 

 540 



Lbs. 



4,102 

 540 

 540 



3,084 

 116 



2,921 

 120 



84 gain. 



23 loss. 



It will be seen that the cows ate somewhat more hay than fod- 

 der, the grain fed being the same in both cases. More milk 

 was obtained from the hay, but the fodder corn yielded more 

 butter, the cows in this lot giving slightly richer mUk than the 

 others. The cows fed hay gained in weight, while those on fod- 

 der corn lost. The trial shows these feeds to be substantially 

 equal, pound for pound. This being true, the high value of 



1 Rept. 1892. 



