IIo STORRS AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION. 
Daily Ration per tooo Pounds Live Weight Actually Fed to Herd 
No. 8, and Suggested Rations. 


AS FED. SUGGESTED CHANGES. 
RATION No. 8. 


A. B. Cy 

Wheat bran, - - - | 4.9 pounds.| 5.0 pounds.| 5.0 pounds. 
Corn and cob meal, - - | 7.3. pounds. | 4.0 pounds. 7.0 pounds. 
Malt sprouts, = - - - — 6.0 pounds. | 4.0 pounds. 
Hay, - - - - | 28.7 pounds. | 15.0 pounds. | 12.0 pounds. 
Digestible eae - - 3.15 pounds. 2.50 pounds. 2.50 pounds, 
Fuel value, - - “ - | 41,350 calories.| 31,500 calories.; 30,850 calories. 
Nutritive ratio, ue - - 6.0 Per) 5.6 

Cost of ration, - - - 38.0 cents. 
27,0 Cents: 20.2 cents... 



Ration No. 8, as fed, was very large, containing 3.15 pounds 
of digestible protein, and its fuel value was over 41,000 cal- 
ories. The ration was fairly well balanced, but was altogether 
too large. If about one-fifth less had been fed, the food would 
probably have been utilized to better advantage. The use of so 
much hay made the ration an expensive one. In the suggested 
rations malt sprouts have been added to the grain feed used. In 
B, six pounds of malt sprouts replace three pounds of corn and cob 
meal and 14 pounds of A; and in ration C, four pounds of malt 
sprouts are fed with 17 pounds less hay than in ration A. Re- 
ducing the quantities of hay and increasing the grain feeds reduced 
the cost of the ration very materially. If, however, some of this 
hay could be replaced by some cheaper form of coarse*foods, the 
price of the ration would be still farther reduced. 
Daily Ration per 1000 Pounds Live Weight Actually Fed to Herd 
Lo. 9, and eer LRations. 











As FED. SUGGESTED CHANGES, 
RATION No. 9. 
A. B. as 
Corn meal, - ; r - | 2.0 pounds.| 4.0 pounds.| 2.0 pounds. 
Wheat bran, - - - I.5 pounds. | 2.0 pounds. I.0 pounds. 
Cotton seed meal, - - 1.5 pounds. I.0 pounds, I.0 pounds, 
Cream.gluten, - - - 1.5 pounds. I.O0 pounds. I.0 pounds. 
Hay, - . - - | 12.0 pounds. = — 
Rowen, - - - : 5.I pounds, | 12.0 pounds. 15.0 pounds. 
Stover, - : - 5.I pounds, | 10.0 pounds. | 10.0 pounds. 
Digestible protein, - - 2.15 pounds. | 2.50 pounds. | 2.50 pounds. 
Fuel value, - - . - | 29,950 calories.| 31,500 calories.) 30,600 calories. 
Nutritive ratio, T: : 6.4 5.7 5.6 
Cost of ration, - 23,8 -cenisn “+. 24-04 cents. 20:1 - cents. 


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