90 AORIOULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION, ItHACA, N. T. 



Table XTI. — CoNsriiPXioy of Dry Matter in Winter Months. 



The averages of Table XII are summed up in Table XIII which 

 gives the number of pounds of dry matter consumed for each poiind 

 of milk and fat yielded and also the pounds of dry matter consumed 

 per 1,000 pounds live weight per day. The average number of 

 pounds of dry matter required for iDO pounds of milk was 104. 

 Freddie required the least, 81 pounds, Daisy the most, 249 pounds. 

 The average number of pounds of dry matter required for 1 pound of 

 fat was 27. Cora and Beauty required the least, 17 pounds; Glista 2d 

 the most, 47 pounds. The average number of poimds of dry matter 

 consumed per 1,000 pounds live weight per day was 24.7. The stand- 

 ard for milch cows as given by Armsby (Manual of Cattle Feeding, p. 

 432) is 24. The larger cows required less per 1,000 pounds live weight 

 and the smaller cows more than the standard. Eleven cows, whose 

 average weight was 1,004 pounds, ate more than 24 pounds of dry 

 matter per 1,000 pounds live weight per day; 9 cows, whose average 

 weight was 1,267 pounds, ate less than 24 pounds of dry matter per 

 1,000 pounds live weight per day, the extremes being 20.7 for Glista 

 and 30.8 for Crem Valentine. 



* Figures for th«>se two cows are for November and December. 1891, and the whole of January, 

 188S. 



