12 STORRS AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION. 

Daily Ration per tooo Pounds Live Weight Actually Fed to Herd 
Vo. 11, and Suggested Rations. 






As FED. SUGGESTED CHANGES. 
RaTION No, It. Fea Rane fo Te 
AS B. Cc. 
Wheat middlings, - 3.1 pounds.; 2.0 pounds. | 2.0 pounds. 
Corn meal, - - - 3.1 pounds. — 6.0 pounds. 
Cotton seed meal, - 3.1 pounds.| 3.0 pounds.| 3.0 pounds, 
Wheat bran, - 0.8 pounds. | 3.0 pounds. | 2.0 pounds. 
TL ay ye to Srey meee I2.I pounds. — 10.0 pounds. 
Oat hay, - ¢ - 6.7 pounds. | 12.0 pounds. == 
Stover, - - - 3.8 pounds. | 10.0 pounds.| 5.0 pounds. 
Digestible protein, - 2.75 pounds, | 2.50 pounds. | 2.50 pounds. 
Fuel value, - - - 34.450 calories.| 31,500 calories.| 31,500 calories. 
Nutritive ratio, I: = a7 Bay 5+7 
Gost.of ration:>~. = ~ 28.2 cents. 21,2 .cents, 25.2 (cents. 


Daily Ration per tooo Pounds Live Weight Actually Fed to Herd 
Vo. 12, and Suggested Rations. 





As FED SUGGESTED CHANGES. 
RATION No, 12. aa 
A. B. Ge 
Wheat bran, = ~ = 3.8 pounds. | 2.0 pounds.| 3.0 pounds. 
Corn meal, - - - - 2.3 pounds. | 4.0 pounds. 3.0 pounds. 
Cotton seed meal, - - | 2.4 pounds. | 1.0 ‘pounds. — 
Malt sprouts, - - - | 4.6 pounds.} 6.0 pounds.| 8.0 pounds. 
Ensilage,  - = = - | 41.I pounds. | 50.0 pounds. | 25.0 ‘pounds. 
Hay, - - - - - | 7.4 pounds. | 3.0 pounds. | 8.0 pounds, 
Digestible protein, - - 3.00 pounds. | 2.50 pounds. | 2.50 pounds. 
Fuel value, - - - - | 30,750 calories.| 31,100 calories.| 31,000 calories. 
Nutritive ratio, I: - - 4.5 5.6 5.6 
(ost: of ration,» -- - - 24.7 cents. 2178: “cents. 23.5 cents. 


Ration No. 12 is the narrowest of the 16. It contains three 
pounds of digestible protein, and the fuel value of the ration is 
not quite 31,000 calories. Its nutritive ratio is 1 to 4.5. The 
animals upon this ration gave the best returns, so far as the five 
days’ tests show, of any of the herds examined, and so far as it is 
allowable to make deductions from one such test, the use of 
larger quantities of protein than suggested in the tentative 
standard ration of page roo, would seem to be justified. The 
suggested rations B and C are wider and contain less protein 
than A. Their fuel values are about the same as that of A, and 
their costs are a little less. If malt sprouts could be bought at the 
price ($12.50 per ton) at which they were used in this ration in 
1893, the ration would be a very cheap one. 

