14 Report oF THE D1irREcTOR OF THE 
- Quality and Quantity of Food Fed. 
The following table, which is a continuation of similar tables 
inthe Tenth, Eleventhand Twelfth Annual Lteports, gives the kind 
and amount of each food eaten.by each animal during each 
month of the experiment, and it will serve as a guide to those 
who may desire, during the different months of the year, to 
supply their animals with a similar ration. 
Letters of inquiry are frequently addressed to the Station ask- 
ing for information as to the rations needed for production of 
the best results, a question of the greatest practical importance 
to the dairyman, but yet one concerning which I think the cor- ~ 
rect answer remains largely for future determination, but by — 
consulting the following table one may learn what ration was 
fed the several animals of our herd each month in the year, and by 
comparing with other tables presented in this report the effect 
of such feed, as also of the changes from one kind of feed to 
another, may be determined, and the knowledge thus obtained is 
sure to be of interest and may be of great value by way of sug- 
gesting certain experiments indicated by the results here recorded. 
As is well known to the practical feeder, very marked differences 
are found to result from simply a change of feed without regard 
to the difference in composition of such feed, and the following 
pages will record many such changes made with our herd and 
the results presumably produced thereby. 
