Report oF THE First ASSISTANT: 
During the year 1894, the work in charge of the first assistant 
has been similar to that of the two preceding years. Much time 
has been spent in attending to part of the very large amount of 
necessary routine work connected with the general Station 
management, including considerable correspondence. The feed- 
ing of the dairy cattle under experiment has been superintended - 
and the pig feeding attended to. [Feeding experiments with 
hens have been continued and a number of chicks have been 
grown in connection with the breeding experiments mentioned 
in the annual report for 1898. Data concerning the yield, etc., 
from the set of field plats treated with crude chemicals, were 
collected as usual. 
Cattle Feeding. 
In feeding milch cows, the coarse foods used during the year 
have been: Clover hay, mixed hay (clover and timothy), 
timothy hay, corn stover, corn silage, alfalfa forage, oat-and-pea 
forage, corn forage, and beets. The grain foods used during the 
year have been: Wheat bran, corn meal, wheat middlings, 
ground oats, gluten feed, linseed meal, O. P., cottonseed meal, 
and “King” gluten meal. A few other coarse foods, such as 
alfalfa hay and rape forage, were fed to bulls although not to 
COWS. 3 
During January the milch cows were fed, from the Ist to 15th, 
clover hay, morning and noon and corn silage at night. For the 
rest of the month corn stover was fed in the morning, corn silage 
at noon and clover hay at night. The mixed grain fed morning 
and night throughout the month consisted of five parts wheat — 
bran, five parts gluten feed, two parts wheat middlings, two | 
parts linseed meal, O. P., one part corn meal, and one part — 
ground oats. 

