Books with author Jim Edmonds

No. 192 OBJECT. To determine the efficiency of alfalfa hay, corn, and oats in growing pure-bred draft fillies to two years of age. PLAN. Ten pure-bred Percheron fillies were fed from weanlings to two years of age. The experiment, covering two winter and one summer feeding periods, began December 8, 1914, and ended when the fillies were turned on pasture May 8, 1916. Oats and corn were fed, one-half of each by weight, with alfalfa hay as the sole roughage. The pasture was a blue-grass sod, containing a slight mixture of other grasses. Page 427 RESULTS. The trial seemed to indicate that a liberal portion of well-cured legume hay should be the foundation for feeding young, growing horses. A long with this roughage, enough grain should be fed to produce the desired growth. In this experiment it seemed necessary, unless the fillies received a set-back in growth, to feed some grain thruout the pasture season. Pages 429, 434 Alfalfa hay fed with corn and oats gave results of a character which indicates that there is little or no need of feeding purchased mill feeds to growing horses when alfalfa can be grown on the farm. When alfalfa hay is the roughage used, a considerable proportion of the grain ration may safely be corn. In this experiment the proportion was one-half by weight. Pnge 436 The average total feed consumed per head during the experiment was 45.35 bushels of corn, 79.36 bushels of oats, 2.58 tons of alfalfa hay, and four-fifths of an acre of good grass. The average total gain in weight per individual was 690.5 pounds, and in height, 7.96 inches. The average daily gain was 1% pounds. Pages 434, 437 During the first winter an average of 5.674 pounds of grain and 4.266 pounds of hay was required per pound of gain. The second winter feeding period required an average of 9.228 pounds of grain and 12.99 pounds of hay per pound of gain. Pages 437-438 The ave(Typographical errors above are due to OCR software and don't occur in the book.)

Excerpt from Feeding Pure-Bred Draft FilliesObject. - TO determine the efficiency of alfalfa hay, corn, and oats in grow ing pure-bred draft fillies to two years of age.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from Feeding Pure-Bred Draft FilliesObject. - TO determine the efficiency of alfalfa hay, corn, and oats in grow ing pure-bred draft fillies to two years of age.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

No. 235 These experiments have shown that the production of pure-bred draft fillies in I llinois, or where conditions are similar, will be most satisfactory when good pastures and legume roughages form the basis of their rations. Sound, good quality legume roughages, such as alfalfa, may constitute from one-half to twothirds of the roughage fed; the remainder to consist of carbonaceous roughages such as oat hay, oat straw, or perhaps timothy hay or corn stover. Pasture is essential. In fact, too much emphasis cannot be placed upon the importance of good pasture in horse production. It is certain that much of the success in growing these fillies was due to the use of nutritious pasture. This pasture was mostly blue grass with some timothy, orchard grass, and clovers. Abundant pastures and legume hays reduce the grain requirement, but it is not possible to secure the most satisfactory and economical growth and development unless these are supplemented with grain feeds. From experience in the three trials which have been conducted at this Station, it has been found best to feed grain in comparatively small amounts during all seasons rather than to feed it in large quantities at one time and perhaps discontinue its use at other times. In the third trial the quantity of grain fed was small, but the results in the rate and quality of growth were satisfactory and economical. Lot I received an average of 6.36 pounds of crushed oats and bran per head daily, and Lot II received 5.40 pounds of corn and bran per head daily. These amounts were about the minimum that would produce good growth when fed with alfalfa hay and oat hay. Of the grain rations fed, the one composed of 75 percent crushed oats and 25 percent bran proved most satisfactory. While a grain ration composed largely of corn, fed with alfalfa hay and pasture, is adequate for the production of growth, it doe(Typographical errors above are due to OCR software and don't occur in the book.)