116 



EXPERIMENTS WITH ENSILAGE, 



GAIN OK LOSS IX WEIGHT. 



First period. 



Second period -_ 



Third period (Nos. and 7). 

 Third period (Nos. 8 and 9). 



Gain. 



116 



Loss. 



133 



50 



First period, Lot III (Nos. C and 7) 

 Second period," " " " " 

 Third period, " " " " " . 

 First period. Lot IV (Nos. 8 and 9). 

 Second period, " " " " " . 

 Third period, " " " " " . 



Milk Yield. 



6UX 



584>^ 

 681X 

 655 

 569)<r 



Dally 

 Average. 



29.26 

 30.30 

 27.83 

 32.45 

 31.19 

 27.11 



From the table it is seen that during the first period, when the ration was 

 simply meal and dried corn fodder, that there was a loss of 133 pounds of flesh, 

 but that when ensilage was substituted for dried corn fodder, there was 

 a marked incre;ise of IIG lbs , and a daily increase of milk. 



During the last period the cows fed on ensilage still gained, while those 

 fed dried corn fodder lost in weight. Although during the first and second 

 periods lot IV gave considerable more milk than lot III, yet when, during the 

 third period, lot IV had dried corn fodder substituted for ensilage, their yield 

 of milk fell below that of lot III. 



BY INDIVIDUALS. 

 No. 1. 



The decrease in the amount of gain the second period was due to the fact 

 that it took this animal some time to become accustomed to eating ensilage. 



During the third period the amount of ensilage was increased, and tliere was 

 quite an increase in weight. 



We have rarely found an animal that does not eat the ensilage with avidity 

 from the start. 



No. 2. 



During the second period there was a greater falling off in this case than in 

 the other, but nearly as large a gain during the third period. 



