172 INDIAN CORN CULTURE. 



For dairy cattle, 1,000 lbs. weight: (1) 10 lbs. corn-fodder, 10 

 lbs. oat straw, 2 lbs. linseed- meal, 4 lbs. malt sprouts, 10 lbs. 

 oat and corn-meal. 



(2) 60 lbs. corn silage, 5 lbs. hay, 2 lbs. linseed-meal, 4 lbs. 

 bran. 



(3) 18 lbs. corn-fodder, 8 lbs. wheat bran, 4 lbs. cotton-seed 

 meal, 4 lbs. corn-meal. 



(4) 17 lbs. clover hay, 3 lbs. wheat bran, 10 lbs. corn-meal. 



The writer has fed very young calyes skim- 

 milk in which was stirred 2 to 4 oz. of very fine 

 corn-meal per feed, with satisfactory results. 

 Numerous old feeders drop a handful of shelled 

 corn in the milk bucket when feeding calves, 

 and they soon learn to clean up the grain with 

 avidity. 



Sheep. — In the West, shelled corn is more 

 often fed to sheep than any other kind of grain, 

 a pint a day in a general way being given ma- 

 ture animals, although many feed much heavrier 

 in finishing for the market. It is an interest- 

 ing fact that while if mature cattle are fed 

 shelled corn some of it will pass through them 

 whole, sheep will digest the kernel entirely. 



Feeding experiments on sheep have been un- 

 dertaken at the Michigan station by Smith and 

 Mumford to an extensive degree.* During the 

 winter of 1893-94 125 lambs were divided in 

 nine lots and fed different rations for fattening. 

 In all of these rations but one corn was fed, as 



*Bulletin 113, Michigan agricultural experiment station, 

 October, 1894. 



