
— 
’ 
A STUDY OF RATIONS FED TO MILCH COWS. 
TABLE 5. 
65 
Summary of total and digestible nutrients Jed per day per rooo 
pounds, live weight, on dairy farms in Connecticut. 
Studies of four successive winters, 1892-93, 

i) 
7893-94, 1894-95, and 1895-96. 


| Reference No. 
CLASSES OF Foon. 

 eeaollss food, 
Coarse food, - 
| | 
| Vere l otal food = = 
| ( Concentrated food, 
_) Coarse food, - 
| f Total food, - 
( Concentrated food, 
B Coarse food, - 
| | 
| ie 2 Total food, - 
| 
_{ Concentrated food, 
4 Coarse food, - 
| L Total food, - 
| ( Concentrated food, 
| Coarse food, - 
|| 
lL. Total food, - 
Concentrated food, 
Coarse food, - 
| 
Total food, - 
( Concentrated food, 
i, food, - 

Total food, - 
( Concentrated food, 
, Coarse food, - 
MeL Total food... 
ie onccmrated food, 

, Coarse food, - 
(Putotal food, = 

Total Food. 
Lbs. 
43.6 

O1.9 | 
Tics 
64.7 




76.1 | 
10.7 
27-9 

38.6. 
10.6 
30.5 
cuit 
See 
46.3 
54.5 
7°5 
26; 
34,1 



14.1 
24.4 
38.5 

Lone 
28:7 
40.9 

Nw 
n+ 

29.6 











Organic Matter. 
Lbs. 
740 
18.3 
25.5 
10.0 
17.2 

DIGESTIBLE NUTRIENTS AND FUEL VALUE. 

Protein. 

Lbs. 
1.58 
-93 
2.51 

2.05 
74 
2.79 

2.39 
.62 

3.01 | 
1.47 
se ie 
2,62 
2:20 
.96 
3.16 
23 
.80 
2.08 



1.44 
I.00 
2.44 

1.60 
156 
8.16 

1220 
.96 
2.16 



Fat. 



i 


29 
a0) 
eOlt 

.65 

Lt 

09 
50 
43 
98 
58 
was 
.83 


Carbo- 
hydrates. 

Lbs. 
O G 
“SJ Un 
GW & 
18.24 
Own 
Our 
re CO 

15.19 
4.65 
10.13 
14.78 

4.99 
£1.07 
16.66 
2.64 
12.55 
15.19 
3.58 
10.07 
14,55 | 



70 
10.30 
18.00. 

ba 45 
11.60 
16.95 

Nutritive 
Ratio 

| | - 
oD? 
L Ke) 


Fuel 
Value. 

Cal. 
11790 
21660 
83450 
16300 
20700 
37000 
16770 
21180 
37950 
14000 
25800 
39800 
12200 
27200 





_ 89400 
IIIOO 
23400 

- 34500 
| 19740 
22860 
42600 

15050 
26300 
41350 

10500 
19450 - 


29950 - 
