Show k URIC CULTURAL VU L 01 I 1 9 u T RALO I 1 I 1 jomn T a 1 J tryan dryden lagao ly college a A ga r co becj jray gay V S WILI alv ot of the JILIN alt it was tribune in 1 brief I the article U extracted fro from a but bul 1 tr minnesota pertinent experiment ota asca tin of ain the t a thi tho insults I 1 ts of a tehal with ga 1 its timothy tor for milk I 1 H c hay h rf against stated mated in the or ar AS as was biln IM were used in ili on milk cos COMB d it divided Into four lots g with olm fed grain 1 I 1 were Q 1015 11 r prairie hay LEE alternating a ue ally rc pe I 1 or being added to lo the ra is ants s ail ill the hie time the of tva 0 lis IS san conal bcd of it 11 mixture of bran brall in linseed andl barley corn 1 meat meal and fund ly hay was first t class the pralle al 1 timothy waa as also I 1 i lay hay and the land I 1 I 1 S the I 1 timothy was valued grade erode t per t ton oil and the prairie haj hay nt at found in tills this trial that prairie ih I 1 nas nag to timothy tor for s fit atlease east equal lay ton tind at the prices sa III on for for the two tivo kinds of hay bay milk produced lat at 13 per cent less cost bd it butter tat fat at 13 per cent less lesa cost prairie hay bay was nag used then K a the next weeks issue of the trl correspondent agricultural a as atri the cause of tame hay I 1 axalla hay stating mating that the tha seer yield of the former should cause irmela re to abandon the raising of wild I 1 IT he instances a case cago in fit wyoming amro a thousand acres were devoted I 1 incie production of 0 hay bay and on till this mild ila hay bay was put up lip jn in the kaalt at a cost of an nalle title tame lame huy hoy L 1 1 I 1 67 cents tilts thos prices would lade a radical aliff sronce in ill the ml g of the trial at and lionida have resulted in iii favor ot of limby hal had tile the hay been purchased at hm ege prices our correspondent did ct state the tame hay was rue or timothy there la Is s a vast liere laco between timothy anti and lu ant ne in nutritive val value us and in cost of diction tic tion more th than a 11 there Is be acen sets wild imy ally and ami timothy 0 f churbe courbe the fact act must not he be over dokea ked that the hay constituted a part less ICES than licit halt of the ration fed a milk cows in the it bilal lal it would aie 0 been 1 a different matter matter to have 4 the cows calve on nothing but hay one t on OD timothy and another set on wild nr my we think in such r a dilal jim by bould give better results than inilla is hay bay though timothy when led fed 02 oae I 1 Is a very poor pool rat ration on especially tr inick PI production 0 on n the other sail bead lucer lucerne e properly cured conics wily near madlne a perfect ration in if and there can be no question bat in a feeding trial between lucerne nd lid ald alad hay lucerne would prod produce ce uce ice about t telco ica as 03 much milk as aa a next nen quantity of bild hay bay would pro act that Is when the cows cowe receive bo 0 other feed i in the trial in question the follow folloN lne vIng the dally daily rations ot of the con liff L pounds bran n barley sar ley 3 a IA cani I 1 sf meal I 1 laj aa haj ay i 1 this makes a total of 2798 2793 pounds of 0 td per day in one case prairie I 1 liay lay was as used and in the other timothy in UZI ual prop proportions eions just halt half the of I 1 to of f tb the feed was hay bay tho the other can grain etian but this Is not all digest hilt le the digestible nutrients in the U 4 pounds of grain brain was waa only 9 pounds anal I 1 la 12 out ot of every 14 pounds ot of grallis grain fed d 6 pounds passed through the ant wl undigested milting making a total of 15 1526 26 biais units yi ais ot of actual food lit in the wild bay alion ton in the timothy ration the it 11 ands of 0 timothy contained imd ot of digestible nutrients making abounds ot of actual food in the it alm ration and in this ti alm vidad d a slight flight advantage the allf la in chemical composition Is 8 go 0 ph however that the results in I 1 t I 1 beding the iho I 1 efto 0 rations should be I 1 brally lailly the same the nutritive ratio f the two rations was or I 1 round 1 to 6 7 10 of 0 carbohydrates As A a 0 matter of fact there was no ap a rec tabla difre difference rence in the amount of utter letter produced by the ilia two ration R 1 Is hadd that the cowls cowa relished the bairle bay the better belter tle difference M I 1 fil n the ct cost of the hay lay aud and it was hit 9 factor that resulted reau llad in prairie hay tiring hing bam ba m ii results than timothy deml short experiments have bee been n made at the utah station on en ilia alie value e of wild liay hay fed against timothy land and aei rae the experiments cari rl ments were made macle with tb steers and alap in these trials 1 U jarne rno gave decidedly the best results resul till I 1 I 1 d hy hay in next it and timothy poorest auit lit the ilia trials were not considered con elusive the relative lve value of timothy and ind alla lid hay bay has not yet been ver very ex letual vely or tholo ably investigated nut but so BO tar far as eap exp experiments imenes have come linder lader observation or they hey seem to be ra Vori Vor ible lable to wild hay as aa against ahn omy eby tiro the other oilier question as to which Is tile the most ta b le crop tor for ti the 10 linner farmer to grow erow must bo be largely settled I 1 ed r the e far armer or himself the question tt boll 11 and location must be considered L it ay be e of into Inta eat iest in this fills connect lion to rive ive I 1 the 0 chemical ana analysis lyals of 0 ora 10 hay 8 timothy y and lucerne pro iro Car carbohn bolly ash S it loin fiber dritha FULL fat ir moab lly 6 61 I 1 6 64 51 1 29 1710 ILYA 6 9 zd A 1 ie 46 1 2 29 2 s uxry a SJ 81 I 1 ma I 1 G au bg tt 2 4 fiam tile tho above it Is seen that the there e Is a striking similarity between ti alm ill silly ia ld and prairie hay but that the c composition 0 ot of lucerne al dilan i aiters s widely 1 mm r atif emiler cit lier this would indicate that lucerne contains by tar far the greatest amount of valuable food element clement |