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MANUAL OF CATTLE-FEEDING. 



Dry matter ......... 



Digestible protein 



*' carbb yd rates 

 *' fat , 



Stanilaid, 

 Lbs 



17.5 

 0,7 



8.4 



4.7 IbH. (oni nual. 



4.31 

 0.44 

 8.20 

 0.21 



A striking contrast is at once manifest. The protein of 

 tlie corn meal ration, though falling considerably below 

 the amount called for by the standard, is not essentially 

 less than in some of the Weende experiments (p. 375), but 

 the quantity of non-nitrogenous nutiients is very much 

 smaller in the meal ration, and the same is true of the 

 total dry matter. 



Mr. Miller and others who Jiavo practised Ids system, 

 state that the aninials do not appear to lose flesh on it, and 

 that animals wintered in this way take on tiesh when 

 turned out to gi^ass in the spring more readily than after hay- 

 feeding. Though no weighings are given to Bubstantiato 

 these statements, it appears unlikely that any great deterio- 

 ration in the condition of the animals would have escaped 

 notice. Apparently, we must admit that a ration of thi'eo 

 quarts of corn meal is at least nearly sufficient for main- 

 xenance. 



In accounting for the sufficiency of a ration falling so 

 much below what other experiments have shown to bo 

 necessary, several facts nuist be taken a(*count of. 



In the first place, Mr. Miller\s rules direct that the 

 Stables be kept "warm and comfortable.'' As already 

 noted, the quantity of digestible protein calcidatcd to be 

 present in the corn-meal is about the same as that digested 

 in the Weende experiments, which were also mad© in wEnn 



