The Effect of Spent Mushroom Substrate and Cow Slurry on Sugar Content and Digestibility of Alfalfa Grass Mixtures

Table 2

The effect of fertilizer on sugar content (g·kg⁻¹ DM) in legume grass mixtures in consecutive growing seasons.

Mixture (C)	Year (B)	Treatment (A)						Mean
		0	SMS	CS	SMS10 + CS60	SMS20 + CS40	SMS30 + CS20
Orchard grass + ryegrass + alfalfa	2013	48.67	52.24	78.13	60.50	50.32	46.82	56.11
	2014	48.78	49.01	59.31	57.59	62.47	55.50	55.44
	2015	59.34	61.20	80.93	63.75	68.30	65.62	66.52
Orchard grass + alfalfa	2013	49.11	53.83	50.98	51.43	46.13	51.88	50.56
	2014	56.78	62.22	50.71	62.78	51.03	68.90	58.74
	2015	66.25	70.21	68.67	71.52	63.47	66.02	67.69
Ryegrass + alfalfa	2013	47.67	50.36	52.09	51.06	48.49	41.94	48.60
	2014	55.33	56.67	60.49	60.71	62.24	59.21	59.11
	2015	60.24	62.69	81.97	66.65	66.13	66.47	67.36
Fertilizer effect
		54.68	57.60	64.81	60.67	57.62	58.04	58.90
Growing season effect
2013		48.48	52.14	60.40	54.33	48.31	46.88	51.76
2014		53.63	55.97	56.84	60.36	58.58	61.20	57.76
2015		61.94	64.70	77.19	67.31	65.97	66.04	67.19

LSD_0.05 for: A = 1.54; B = 0.890; C = 0.890; B/C = 1.54; C/B = 1.54; C/A = 1.54; A/B = 2.66; A/C = 1.88; B/A = 2.18, SMS: spent mushroom substrate, CS: cow slurry.