64. STORRS AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION. 
SUMMARY.—THE EXPERIMENTS AND RESULTS. 
Ln the winter of 1892-93 the Station began making systematic 
observations of the winter feeding practices of Connecticut dairy- 
men. The chief points upon which information was obtained 
were: Number of animals in the herd; breed, age, and approxt- 
mate weight of each cow, length of time since dropping last calf 
and till due to calue again; kinds, weights, and chemical compost- 
tion of feeding stuffs used; weights of milk flow,; percentages and 
amounts of butter-fat tn the milk. 
the following is a nearly complete list of the kinds of feeding 
stuffs used. The nutritive ratios are calculated from the analyses 
made in the experiments, together with other analyses of like mate- 
rials, as used in New England. The more nitrogenous materials 
are, of course, those richest in protein or ‘flesh formers,’ while 
the more carbonaceous are those poorer in protein and having 
larger proportions of the fuel ingredients, 7. e., fats, and espe- 
cially the carbohydrates. The former, with smaller nutritive 
ratios, tend to make narrow rations, while the latter make wide 
vations. The latter were used in much larger proportions than 
the forneer. 
CLASSIFICATION OF FEEDING STUFFS USED IN THESE TESTS. 







NiTROGENOuS FEEDING NUTRITIVE CARBONACEOUS FEEDING NUTRITIVE 
STUFFS — RIcH IN PROTEIN. RatTIio, STUFFS — Poor IN PROTEIN, RatTIio. 
Cotton seed meal, - - A Turnips, = 2 - SIEIEG 
Chicago gluten meal, - T2158 Rye: meal, = - : - LS 
O. P. linseed meal, - - te EKO Corn ensilage, - - 1:8.0 
Buffalo gluten feed, - “ T2.5 Potatoes, " - ~ se oie 8 
Rockford gluten feed, s 133.4 Corn and cob meal, = 1:8.8 
Fine wheat feed, - : 2307 Corn:-meal; ~- - - ELOY 
Wheat bran, - - : foa'.6 Bog hay, - - - Ls8O 72 
Wheat middlings, - - 546 Oat hay, - - - 1: 10.6 
Ground oats, - - - I:5.9 Hay, mixed grasses, = Tenn 
Corn stover, - cates Li teas 
Oat straw nose - - 1: 25.5 

Ln 1892-93 sixteen herds were visited and a jive-days’ test was 
made with each. In 1893-94 six herds were visited, and in four 
instances the time of study of the feeding, management, and pro- 
ducts of each herd was extended to twelve days. As soon as the 
analyses could be made, the amounts of actual nutrients in the 
vations fed were calculated, and in three cases other rations were 

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