O2 STORRS AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION. 
The amount of digestible nutrients was thus obtained from actual 
trials instead of by using averages of other experiments. 
RESULTS OFLA L EXPERI LIT. 
The best results on quantity of products were obtained where 
rations with relatively large amounts of protein were fed. Al- 
though one-seventh larger rations of corn fodder were used than 
of those rations made up mainly of the legumes, the latter gener- 
ally gave larger ytelds of both milk, of butter-fat, and of solids in 
the milk, The digestion experiments tndicated that the legumes 
not only contain larger quantities of protein, when harvested, 
than the cereal fodders, but that they are also more thoroughly 
digested. 
PRACTICAL APPLICATION. 
As a rule, the best crops for summer feeding seem to be those 
rich in nitrogenous matter or protein, Although smaller crops 
are usually obtained with the legumes (clover, peas, soy beans, 
etc.,) than with fodder corn, the fodder from the legumes ts richer 
in nitrogen and protein, and a larger percentage of this protein ts 
digested by the animals, and hence these fodders are of more value 
in the production of milk, cheese, butter, and beef. 
Owing to trregularities in pasture feed, caused mainly by fre- 
guent drouths, tt becomes necessary to supplement such feed by the 
use of green fodders or silage, in order to prevent serious shrink- 
age in the amounts of milk, milk solids and butter-fat. A more 
extended use of fodder crops like the clovers, oats and peas, soy 
beans, cow peas and barley and peas, ts a matter that should recetve 
the careful attention of dairymen. 

