. Elements of farm practice, prepared especially for teaching elementary agriculture;. Agriculture. 176 ELEMENTS OF FARM PRACTICE good for horses. Poor and dusty clover hay may not be; but good, bright, well cured clover hay, fed in moderation, is a very good kind of hay for Figure 79.—Making clover hay. Clover should be grown and fed on every farm. It is a very cheap nitrogenous feed. Recent experiments at the Ohio Experiment Station have shown that horses fed mixed timothy and clover hay, kept just as well, were able to do just as much work and showed just as good spirit, when fed c
. Elements of farm practice, prepared especially for teaching elementary agriculture;. Agriculture. 176 ELEMENTS OF FARM PRACTICE good for horses. Poor and dusty clover hay may not be; but good, bright, well cured clover hay, fed in moderation, is a very good kind of hay for Figure 79.—Making clover hay. Clover should be grown and fed on every farm. It is a very cheap nitrogenous feed. Recent experiments at the Ohio Experiment Station have shown that horses fed mixed timothy and clover hay, kept just as well, were able to do just as much work and showed just as good spirit, when fed corn as when fed oats, and that a pound of corn on the cob was worth as much for horse feed as a pound of oats. If horses can be fed corn and clover hay without detriment to them, the cost of keeping a work horse can be reduced $ to $ per year. These data are worthy of study and a fair trial. Questions: 1. Can you give any way by which the cost of feed for a horse may be reduced without injury to the horse? 2. What can you say of the relative value of corn and oats as feed for horses, and the cost per pound of each? 3. Compare timothy and clover hay as to their feeding value. Arithmetic: 1. If com is worth 54c. per bushel, what is the cost per ton of shelled corn (56 lbs. per bushel)? Of ear corn (72 lbs. per bushel)? 2. If it costs $ per acre to grow a crop of corn and husk it. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Wilson, Archie Dell, 1875-; Wilson, E. W. , joint author. St. Paul, Minn. , Webb Publishing Co.
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