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

Table 5

The effect of fertilizer on digestibility of 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	52.00	51.24	55.42	50.50	55.39	47.67	52.04
	II	49.37	48.43	56.77	58.44	59.05	53.97	54.34
	III	49.49	53.64	53.80	53.75	54.07	50.81	52.59
Orchard grass + alfalfa	I	54.22	55.17	50.46	45.54	53.34	44.32	50.51
	II	54.67	54.53	55.58	55.69	53.60	51.45	54.25
	III	55.36	59.46	54.41	51.51	54.64	58.83	55.70
Ryegrass + alfalfa	I	46.56	47.85	55.88	59.35	53.15	49.10	51.98
	II	53.59	55.50	53.38	52.16	59.26	51.15	54.17
	III	42.91	45.73	56.68	57.46	53.62	52.41	51.47
Mixture effect
Orchard grass + ryegrass + alfalfa		50.29	51.10	55.33	54.23	56.17	50.82	52.99
Orchard grass + alfalfa		54.75	56.39	53.48	50.92	53.86	51.53	53.49
Ryegrass + alfalfa		47.68	49.69	55.31	56.32	55.34	50.89	52.54
Harvest effect
I		50.93	51.42	53.92	51.80	53.96	47.03	51.51
II		52.54	52.82	55.24	55.43	57.31	52.19	54.25
III		49.26	52.94	54.96	54.24	54.11	54.02	53.25

LSD_0.05 for: A = 3.02; B = 1.75; C = n.s.; B/C = 3.03; C/B = 3.03; C/A = 3.03; A/B = 5.23; A/C = 3.70; B/A = 4.29, n.s.: not significant; SMS: spent mushroom substrate, CS: cow slurry.