REPORT OF THE CHEMIST.* 
In this report, as in previous ones, considerable attention has 
been given to fodder analyses; but the amount of routine work 
has made it impossible for us to make the analyses so complete as 
we deem desirable. With our present knowledge of the value of 
feeding-stuffs, an analysis of a food can not be said to be complete 
which fails to determine the albuminoid and non-albuminoid 
nitrogen, also the sugars and starch of the nitrogen-free extract, 
Ash analyses have been made for a considerable number of our 
feeding-stuffs, so far as the fertilizing elements are concerned. In 
this report the questions discussed are : 
1. Composition of feeding-stuffs. 
. Amount of fertility removed from the soil by crops. 
. Influence of fertilizers on the chemical composition of grass. 
. Influence of fertilizers on the chemical composition of oats. 
. Chemical composition of hays from different localities. 
6. Changes in corn as it approaches maturity. 
During the winter of 1887-8 the feeding experiments were placed 
under my supervision, and the result of the several trials are given 
under the following heads : 
1. Digestion experiménts with orchard grass. 
. Digestion experiments with a ration. 
. Influence of certain rations on the milk product. 
. Influence of food on the chemical composition of butter. 
. Fattening experiments with young cattle. 
. Ensilage vs. corn fodder for feeding. 
. Feeding for fat and for lean meat. 
The success of these experiments is due level to Mr. 
Emery and Mr. Churchill, whose cooperation made possible 
the trials. Of necessity the amount of chemical work connected 
with such experiments was large, and I am indebted to Mr. Wheeler 
for the aid necessary to carry through these experiments. 
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*K. F. Ladd. 
