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milking, and a record kept. At the end of the first week, each 

 cow was passed over the farm steelyard and weighed. 



At the end of the first week, cows 1, 4, and 5 were selected to 

 be fed in the ordinary way, and 2, 3, and 6 were set aside for 

 the herring meal. At this date the three cows chosen for ordinary 

 feeding in live weight and milk yield stood thus — 



Live weight of the lot, . . . =28 cwt. 



Average milking (twice daily), . =16 jibs. 



Those to get herring meal stood thus — 



Live weight of the lot, . . , = 24| cwt. 



Average milking (twice daily), . = 15^ lbs. 



At the commencement of the experiment, numbers 2 and 6 

 took the meal quite readily, but number 3 was very slow in 

 beginning. The meal has anything but a nice look, being more 

 like manure than anything else. It, however, has not much of 

 a smell, and tastes fishy. At first, about | lb. of herring meal 

 was mixed with 1| lbs. of the ordinary meal, in a couple of days 

 it was given half-and-half, in two more three quarters of herring 

 meal was added, and by the end of the week it was given pure. 

 Numbers 2 and 6 always cleaned out their troughs well, but 

 until the experiment had been continued several weeks number 

 3 seldom did so. The 2 lbs. of meal, either of the herring or 

 ordinary variety, was as much as each cow could be got to clean 

 up readily, and no more was attempted to be given. 



At the beginning of the experiment, when the cows were on 

 the ordinary food, the milk of each was tested by the cream 

 gauge, and again at intervals as the experiment' proceeded, 

 without, however, giving any positive results, other than that all 

 the cows on the normal food gave normal milk, there being very 

 little difference in the quality of any of them, which remained, 

 practically speaking, the same after the one-half had been put 

 on the herring meal. 



This I accounted for by the grass being such a large quantity 

 of their food, and of which they all got an equal share. To be a 

 thorough test, the herring meal should be given during winter, 



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