8 Rn.i.KTix 188. 



Each one received 80 pounds at the morning feed, beside the liay 

 allowance for the day and four pounds of grain. At night the 

 quantity varied from 45 to 65 pounds and no other feed was given 

 at this time except the remaining live pounds of grain. This grain 

 ration was composed of a mixture of two parts of gluten feed, one 

 part of sugar com feed and one part of wheat bran. 



Samples of each cow's milk were tested daily for fat by the 

 Babcock test. The names of the cow^s used are given below together 

 with their breed, age, number of days in milk and weight. 



The weekly record of each of these cows as to the amounts of 

 different food consumed and of milk and fat produced, together 

 with the dry matter consumed per 1,000 pounds daily and the num- 

 ber of pounds of dry matter required by each to produce one 

 hundred pounds of milk and one pound of fat, is found in table 11. 

 These records begin with the week commencing October 13, 

 although no beet pnlp was fed until the day follow^ing. 



