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(2) Production. The four following tables give a record of the 

 quantities of milk, milk solids, fat, and unsalted butter produced by 

 each cow during the last fourteen days of each period. 



Cow A. (Yield for 14 days.) 



First Period .. 

 Second Period 

 Third Period . 



1.37 lbs. less butter than First Period. 

 .M lbs. more butter than Second Period. 



First Period. . 

 Second Period 

 Third Period . 



First Period.. 

 Second Period. 



Cow B. (Yield for 14 days.) 



.87 lbs. less butter than First Period. 

 .25 lbs. more than Second Period. 



Cow C. (Yield for 14 days.) 



2.25 lbs. less butter than First Period. 

 .69 lbs. more butter than Second Period. 



Cow D. (Yield for 14 days.) 



Third Period 1182^ 



1.75 lbs. less butter than First Period. 

 .06 lbs. more butter than Second Period. 



An in.spection of the preceding figures discloses the following 

 facts : 



(1) In passing from the first to the second periods, or from a 

 mixture of cotton-seed meal and corn meal to a grain ration of pure 

 corn meal, the average falling off in butter production was 20.3 per 

 cent, while in passing from the second to the third periods, or from 

 a grain ration of corn meal alone to a mixture of cotton-seed and 

 corn meal, the increase in butter production was 5.9 per cent. The 

 falling off" in the first case ranged with the four cows from 14.8 per 



