BULLETIN No. 87 d. 
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was made in the amount of food allowed it was a reduction, and was 
made to reduce the amount of waste. This did not interfere with 
the amount the animal would consume. The one exception was 
with Lineback in a ration of cotton-seed hulls and meal, where four 
pounds of hulls to one pound of meal were being offered. Because 
of waste the morning before, and at two feeds after collections began, 
the feed offered the next morning was dropped one-third, to be 
increased with return of appetite. It was not increased until half 
through the period of six days, then it was returned to the former 
amount. 
The fodders which are here subjected to digestion are those for 
which no previous determinations of digestibility have been made 
in America, so.far as we know, except silage, cotton-seed hulls and a 
ration of hulls and meal. The digestion of silage alone was necessary 
to preface that of raw cotton-seed, and that of the hulls was deter¬ 
mined for study in connection with the series of rations of cotton¬ 
seed hulls and meal begun last year and continued in these deter¬ 
minations. 
Pulled Fodder. —This is a valuable forage, and is commonly prized, 
and is handy to feed out. It costs too much in the pulling and cur¬ 
ing, and for this reason the crop should be harvested in a different 
way, and more than the leaves saved. It is believed by many 
farmers that pulled fodder (the leaves alone) costs in harvesting all 
that it can be sold for if prime, and much more if, by chance, it 
becomes damaged. The Texas Experiment Station has shown (Bul¬ 
letin 19) that with their large crops, on which harvesting can be 
more cheaply done than in our smaller ones, the cost of pulled fodder, 
with labor at $1 per day for a man and $2 for man and team, to be— 
Where tops alone were cured_$2.13 per ton. 
Where leaves alone were cured_7.67 per ton. 
Where tops and leaves together were cured_2.25 per ton. 
This process is regarded as profitable in any case, but most so in 
the last. 
This forage is saved from the corn grown for grain, and it is 
usually fed by the bundle, with a given number of ears of corn, per 
feed. A better practice, when once learned, would be, for cows, sheep), 
and working animals on the farm, to cure the entire plant (stalk, 
leaves and ears when glazing) at one operation in a silo, and feed it 
out, with a more nitrogenous fodder, such as clover and cowpea-vine 
hay, or soy bean silage, or with a by-product rich in albuminoids, 
like cotton-seed meal. 
Waste .—The total waste for each animal in all the experiments 
was kept, dried when necessary, and mixed at the end of the diges¬ 
tion for the sample for analysis. 
