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Rerort oF First ASSISTANT. 
The work in charge of the first assistant during the year 1893 
has been similar to that of the preceding year. Considerable 
time has been spent in attending to part of the very large 
amount of incidental and routine work connected with the gene- 
ral station management. During the first few months of the 
year a great deal of time was given to the preparation and 
arrangement of exhibits intended for the,Chicago exposition. 
Cattle feeding. 
The feeding of the dairy cattle under experiment has been 
attended to and the rations for them arranged. The hay or 
-forage at different months of the year most readily obtainable © 
was supplemented by different grain foods. The coarse foods 
used during the year were: mixed hay, largely timothy, mixed 
hay of red top and clover, mixed hay of timothy and alsike 
clover, clover hay, corn silage, rye forage, alfalfa forage, oat and 
pea forage, corn forage, sorghum forage and beets. The grain 
foods were: wheat bran, corn meal, gluten feed, wheat mid- 
dlings, ground oats, cottonseed meal, linseed meal (old process 
and new process), and ground flaxseed. The amounts and pro- 
portions of the different foods were varied somewhat according 
to the condition, appetite and age, but cows in approximately 
the same stage of lactation were fed as nearly alike as possible. 
The milch cows during January were fed mixed hay (mostly 
timothy, some clover) morning and night, corn silage at noon, 
and at morning and night a mixed grain consisting of five parts 
wheat bran, four parts linseed meal (N. P.), one part wheat mid- — 
dlings, one part ground oats, one part cottonseed meal. 
During February and March mixed hay (mostly timothy, some 
alsike clover) was fed morning and night, corn silage at noon, 

*William P. Wheeler. 


