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'bitty' of the cassava and the cotton seed would' make an ideal 

 food, in combination, for dairy cows. The seed from four acres 

 of cotton and the dry residue from an acre of cassava, after being 

 treated in the starch factory, would yield a mixed meal weighing 

 3 tons, and containing : 



r 3,000 lbs. of digestible Carbohydrates = 50^ 

 ] 320lbs. of Fat = 5 '3/; 



[ 440 lbs, of Albuminoids = 7' 3^ 



Such a food should prove of the greatest service in the feeding 

 of dairy cows in this country, as it could be produced at a low cost. 



As no systematic analyses of the milk of Jamaica cows have 

 been made up to the present, and I have been called upon to give 

 evidence under the Adulteration Law as to samples of milk taken 

 by the police, it seemed desirable in the public interest that such 

 data should be obtained, so that a sound opinion upon the genuine- 

 ness of local milk samples could be given. To this end, Mr. H. S. 

 Hammond, F.C.S., of this department, personally visited all the 

 chief dairies in the district and took samples of the milk of each 

 cow and the mixed milk as sold to the public. Our best thanks 

 are due to the proprietors of these dairies for the cordial way in 

 which they assisted this investigation and for the full information 

 they give as to the breeding and feeding of the cows. 



The main results of the analyses may be tabulated as follows : — 



