

New York AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION. 13 
Quality and Quantity of Food Fed. 
The following table, which is a continuation of similar tables in 
the tenth and eleventh annual reports, 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 asking 
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 correct 
answer remains largely for future determination, but by consult- 
ing the following table one may learn what ration was fed the 
several animals of our herd each month in the year, and by com- 
paring 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 differ- 
ences 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. 
