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

Table 4

The effect of fertilizer on the digestibility of 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	48.44	49.42	53.11	57.65	54.59	46.15	51.56
	2014	52.00	56.74	58.91	55.35	60.50	56.64	56.69
	2015	50.42	47.16	53.97	49.70	53.42	49.66	50.72
Orchard grass + alfalfa	2013	54.67	57.34	54.58	49.29	55.44	50.41	53.62
	2014	58.22	60.80	55.20	52.71	58.20	57.50	57.11
	2015	51.36	51.02	50.68	50.75	47.94	46.69	49.74
Ryegrass + alfalfa	2013	42.44	43.80	53.87	58.14	55.20	48.39	50.31
	2014	51.00	53.70	59.76	57.40	60.32	58.82	56.83
	2015	49.61	51.57	52.30	53.43	50.51	45.45	50.48
Fertilizer effect
		50.91	52.39	54.71	53.82	55.13	51.08	53.01
Growing season effect
2013		48.52	50.18	53.85	55.03	55.08	48.32	51.83
2014		53.74	57.08	57.96	55.15	59.68	57.65	56.88
2015		50.46	49.92	52.32	51.29	50.62	47.27	50.31

LSD_0.05 for: A = 1.12; B = 0.648; C = 0.648; B/C = 1.12; C/B = 1.12; C/A = 1.12; A/B = 1.938; A/C = 1.37; B/A = 1.59, SMS: spent mushroom substrate, CS: cow slurry.