84. STORRS AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION. 
The ration suggested by the Station ts founded upon the 
standard of Wolff, with allowance for the abundance and 
cheapness of foods of high fuel value, t. ¢., those rich in carbo- 
hydrates and fats, in the United States. The experience of the 
last two years would, however, indicate that, in general, tt ts 
more profitable to feed a cow in ‘‘the flush’’ rather more protein 
than the suggested ration calls for. The very decided trend of 
these experiments ts toward nitrogenous feeding for large milk 
production. The German standards of Lehmann, which are 
later than those of Wolff, give expression to the same tendency tn 
the results of late experience and experiment in Germany. 
GENERAL CONCLUSIONS. 
The cost of producing milk and butter depends largely upon the 
kind of cows and their condition as regards time from calving. 
Many of the individual cows tn these tests were not returning the 
cost of feed. One of the first things our datrymen need to do ts to 
make a closer study of the individual animals of thetr herds and 
to reject the unprofitable ones. The relative productiveness of 
cows can be easily learned by the use of the Babcock test, together 
wrth the daily weighing of the milk. In these tests the cost of the 
vation depended largely upon the proportion of the cheaper coarse 
fodders like corn silage, corn stover, clover hay, oat hay, and sec- 
ond quality ordinary hay, which went to make up the total coarse 
Jodders of the ration. The better grades of hay, such as timothy 
and red-top, were among the most expensive feeding stuffs used. 
When good hay sells Jor from fifteen to eighteen dollars per ton tt 
2s generally more profitable to sell than to feed to dairy cows. 
A liberal proportion of the nitrogenous grain feeds tended to 
lessen the total cost of the ration in the majority of the cases, while 
the net cost was greatly lessened by their use. The nitrogenous 
(protein) feeding stuffs like clovers, cotton seed, linseed and gluten 
meals, should be more extensively used as dairy feeds. These 
feeds have been shown to exert a greater influence on the quantity. 
and quality of animal products than corn and even wheat feeds, 
and when the manure ts carefully saved they are of great value 
Jor keeping up the fertility of the farm. 

