SOME DIGESTIBILITY TRIALS ON INDIAN FEEDING STUFFS,
                                                 PART VIII.

                    (SOME PUNJAB HAYS, III AND WHEAT BHUSA).

                                                     BY

                      P. E. LANDER, M.A., D.Sc., A.I.C., I.A.S.,

               Agricultural Chemist to Government, Punjab, Lyallpur,

                                                   AND

            PANDIT LAL CHAND DHARMANI, L.AG., B.Sc. (Agri),
       Assistant to Agricultural Chemist to Government, Punjab, Lyallpur.

                  [Received for publication on 25th February 1932.]

It has been shown in two earlier papers [Lander and Lal Chand Dharmani,
1928-29] of this series of digestibility trials that grass hays gathered from different
parts of the Punjab differ very widely in chemical composition and that some of
them constitute maintenance rations for animals at rest, while others do not, and
the amounts of wheat bran required to be added to non-maintenance ration hays
to bring them up to maintenance standards were worked out. The present paper
deals with the nutritive value of six grass hays supplied by the Military Grass
Farms at Jhelum, Ferozepur, Kasauli, Dalhousie, and Multan (two grasses), and
their comparison with wheat bhusa as a cattle feed. The method of conducting
the trials was similar to that described in previous papers of this series and the
trials were continued from January to September 1929 using six Montgomery hei-
fers from 2 to 3 years age and similar in all other respects. Data concerning these
heifers designated by numbers 122, 128, 133, 123, 124, and 129 are given below :—

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