
108 STORRS AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION. 
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Daily Ration per 1000 Pounds Live Weight Actually Fed to Herd 
No. 5, and Suggested Rations. 






AS PED: SUGGESTED CHANGES, 
RATION No. 5. 
A. B. cs 
Wheat middlings, - - | 2,2 pounds.| 6.0 pounds.| 4.0 pounds. 
Chicago gluten meal, - - 2.7 pounds. | 3.0 pounds.| 2.0 pounds. 
Cotton seed meal, a 3 3.3. pounds. 1.0 pounds./ 2.0 pounds, 
Hay, - - - - - | 13.3 pounds.| 6.0 pounds./ 15.0 pounds. 
Ensilage, - - - | 33.0 pounds. | 50.0 pounds. | 30.0 pounds. 
Digestible protein, - - | 3.15 pounds. | 2.50 pounds. | 2.50 pounds, 
Fuel value, - - - - | 39,400 calories.| 30,500 calories.| 31,300 calories. 
Nutritive ratio, I: s “of a4 5.5 5.6 
Cost of ration, - - - 28.1 cents. 23.0 cents. 26.6 cents. 



All of the grain feeds of ration No. 5 are quite rich in protein. 
The ration itself is a very large one, though very well balanced. 
The ration as actually fed furnished 3.15 pounds of digestible 
protein, and its fuel value was over 39,000 calories. If one-fifth 
less of each of the ingredients of the ration had been fed, it would 
have been of about the same size as the suggested rations B and 
C, and its cost would have been about the same as B, and con- 
siderably less than C. Ration C is an illustration of the fact that 
hay, if used in considerable amount, makes an expensive ration. 
Ration B contains two pounds more of grain than ration C, but 
costs nearly four cents less. ‘This difference is chiefly due to 
the smaller amounts of hay and larger amounts of ensilage used 
in B than in C. 
Daily Ration per 1,000 Pounds Live Weight Actually Fed to Herd 
No. 6, and Suggested Rations. 










As FED. SUGGESTED CHANGES. 
RATION No. 6. 
A. B. C. 
Corn meal, - - - - 3.7. pounds. | 2.0 pounds. — 
Wheat middlings, - - 2.0 pounds.| 5.0 pounds.| 5.0 pounds. 
Cotton seed meal, - - 1.8 pounds. | 3.0 pounds.| 3.0 pounds. 
Oat hay, - - - - 4.7 pounds. 5.0 pounds. | 10.0 pounds. 
Hay, - - - - - | I4.4 pounds. — — 
Stover, ay hate = Z 7-5 pounds. | 14.0 pounds. | 12.0 pounds. 
Digestible protein, - - 2.05 pounds. | 2.50 pounds. | 2.50 pounds. 
Fuel value, - - - - |34,500 calories.|31,000 calories.| 31,250 calories. 
Nutritive ratio, I: ~ - Cnt 5.6 5.6 
Cost of ration, - - - 27.5. cents. 20.4 cents. 21:08 cents. 


