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

Table 3

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

Mixture (C)	Harvest (cuts) (B)	Treatment (A)						Mean
		0	SMS	CS	SMS10 + CS60	SMS20 + CS40	SMS30 + CS20
Orchard grass + ryegrass + alfalfa	I	53.11	55.85	66.37	51.49	56.37	54.37	56.26
	II	50.94	51.21	77.54	59.80	68.63	57.79	60.99
	III	52.73	55.40	74.46	70.55	56.09	55.78	60.83
Orchard grass + alfalfa	I	53.44	59.34	52.28	55.79	56.96	58.68	56.08
	II	57.11	61.00	62.83	65.06	49.25	60.40	59.28
	III	61.58	65.93	55.25	64.88	54.43	67.71	61.63
Ryegrass + alfalfa	I	49.44	53.12	66.79	58.32	53.99	51.37	55.51
	II	58.84	61.00	60.63	59.02	62.51	56.06	59.68
	III	54.95	55.58	67.13	61.08	60.36	60.20	59.88
Mixture effect
Orchard grass + ryegrass + alfalfa		52.26	54.15	72.79	60.61	60.36	55.98	59.36
Orchard grass + alfalfa		57.38	62.09	56.78	61.91	54.55	62.26	59.00
Ryegrass + alfalfa		54.41	56.57	64.85	59.47	58.95	55.88	58.36
Harvest effect
I		52.00	56.10	61.81	55.20	55.77	54.81	55.95
II		55.63	57.74	67.00	61.29	60.13	58.08	59.98
III		56.42	58.97	65.61	65.50	56.96	61.23	60.78

LSD_0.05 for: A = 1.38; B = 0.802; C = 0.802; B/C = 1.39; C/B = 1.39; C/A = 1.39; A/B = 2.40; A/C = 1.70; B/A = 1.96, SMS: spent mushroom substrate, CS: cow slurry.