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by the Vermont Agricultural Experiment Station * and their 

 results are appended in the table, to be compared with the results 

 found at this Station. The daily averages for the Vermont herds 

 were compiled for two periods, viz : the last twenty days before 

 going to pasture ; and the twenty days following the first ten at 

 pasture. 



Table V. — Effect of the Change From Barn to Pasture on the 

 Milk Yield of Individual Cows for 1898. 



Name of cow. 



Aver- I Aver- I Aver- 



Date of calv-'age forage forjlncrease age for 

 ing, [ last 21 first 7 | or de- first 14 

 days on days on crease, days on 



Belle 



Belva 2d. . . 



Bertha 2d. . 



Cherry . , . . 



Dora 



Emma 



Garnet St. 

 Lambert . 



Gem Valen- 

 tine 



r>lista 4th . . 



GlistaNeth- 

 erland. . . . 



Jennie 2d. . 



Julia 



Mabel 2d . . 



May 2d ... . 



Mollie. . . . 



Ruth 



Valerie St. 

 Lambert . 



Aug. 



Sept. 



Jan. 



Oct. 



Dec. 



Aug. 



Oct. 



Sept. 



May 

 ': Oct. 



Oct. 

 ' Nov. 

 i Sept. 



Sept. 

 j Nov. 



Avg. of herd 



'97 

 '97 

 '98 

 '97 

 '97 

 '97 



Oct. '97 



'97 

 '97 



'97 

 '97 

 '97 

 '97 

 '97 

 '97 

 '97 



Sept. '97 



barn 

 feed. 



18.25 



25-75 

 22.25 



18.75 



39-25 

 20.75 



pasture 



19.00 

 25.00 

 23-50 



19-75 

 43.00 



19-50 



17.00 

 28.00 



22.75 

 22.75 



30.75 

 22.50 



13.00 



- .75 



- -75 

 1-25 

 1. 00 



-3-75 

 -1-25 



pasture 



19-50 



25.25 

 22.75 



19-75 

 42.75 

 21.25 



15.50 17-50 I —2.00 17.25 



17.75 18.50 -- .75 1900 

 28.75 30.25 ^1.50 30.75 



I I 



21.75 24.25 +2.50 24.50 



15.75 

 27.50 



24.75 

 25.00 



32.50 

 21.00 



— 1.25 



— .50 

 -^2.00 



— 2.25 



-1-75 

 —1.50 



15.00 I -^2.00 



+ .96 



14.25 

 2750 



24-75 

 25. CO 



33.00 

 20.75 



14.75 



Aver- 

 age for 

 Increase 21 days 

 or de- after 

 crease, first 14 

 days on 

 [pasture 



+ 1.25 



— .50 

 + .50 

 -f-I.OO 



+3.50 



+ .50 



+ 1.75 



+ 1.25 

 -J-2.00 



+ 2.75 



— 2.75 



— .50 

 00 



25 

 25 



75 



4-2, 

 + 2, 

 — I 



+ L75 



+ 1.01 



19.75 

 25.50 



24.75 

 19.00 

 41.50 

 20.50 



14.00 



18.75 

 28.75 



20.00 



1550 



23-75 

 23.50 

 25.25 

 31.50 

 20.50 



18.00 



* Third, fourth, sixth and seventh Annual Reports. 



