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SESSIONAL PAPER No. 16 



Dairy Cow Feeding Experiment No. 6. — Central Experimental Farm, Ottawa. 



Object of Experiment. — To compare nwlasses meals. (Caldwell's molasses meal 

 standard). 



Rations: Periods 1, H, 5 and 7: Meal mixture plus Caldwell's molasses meal. 



Period 3: Meal mixture plus Molascuit. 

 Period 5 : Meal mixture plus Molassine meal. 

 Period 7: Meal mixture less molasses meal. 



Value of feeds per ion. — Hay. $7; straw, $4; ensilae-e, $2; Caldwell's molasses 

 meal, $32; Molascuit, $32; Molassine meal, $37; meal, 11 cent per pound. 



Grain and Molasses Meal Mixture. — Bran, 400 iwunds; gluten feed, 200 pounds; 

 nutt-ed oil cake, 200 pound.s; molasses meal (make dependins^ on experiment) 200 

 pounds. 



Comparing Caldwell's Molasses Meal with Molascuit. 



Period 1 



Caldwell's 



Molasses 



Meal 



Period 3 



Caldwell's 



Molasses 

 Meal 



Number of cows in test 



Pounds of milk produced by II cows lb. 



Average milk per cow per day " 



Average per cent fat in milk p.c. 



Total pounds of fat produced by 11 cows lb. 



Average pounds fat per cow per day " 



Total meal consumed " 



Total molasses meal consum.ed " 



Mixture consumed perl 00 pounds fat produced. ..." 

 Mixture consumed per 100 pounds milk produced . . " 



Findings from Experiment. — 



Cost of meal mixture fed $ 



Value of roughage fed " 



Total cost of feed " 



Cost to produce 100 pounds fat *' 



Cost to produce 1 pound fat " 



Cost to produce 1 pound butter " 



Profit on 1 pound butter at 30 cents per pound " 



Co-it to produce 100 pounds milk " 



Profit on 100 pounds milk at $1.70 per cwt „ 



11 



2,699- 

 35- 



9 

 2 

 36 



105 

 1 



941- 

 235- 

 1,118- 

 43-5 



15-52 

 4 -.38 

 19-90 

 18-91 

 189 

 0-151 

 0-149 

 0-741 

 0-959 



11 

 2,520- 

 32-7 

 3-9 

 98-2 

 1-27 

 941- 

 2.35- 

 1,197- 

 46-6 



15-52 

 4-38 

 19-90 

 20-26 

 0-202 

 0161 

 0-1.39 

 0-789 

 0-911 



Periods 



1 and 3 



Average. 



Caldwell's 



Molasses 



Meal 



11 



2,609-5 



33-8 



3-9 



101-7 



1-32 

 941- 

 235- 

 1.157-5 

 45-5 



15 52 

 4-38 

 19-90 

 19-58 

 0-195 

 0-156 

 144' 

 0-765 

 0-935 



Period 2 



Molascuit. 



11 



2,638- 



34-2 



3 



102 



1 



941- 

 235- 

 1,197- 

 46-6 



9 

 9 

 34 



15-52 

 4 -.38 

 19-90 

 19-34 

 193 

 0-154 

 0-146 

 0-751 

 0-946 



The results for the averag* of the CaidwoU's molasses meal feeding periods, as 

 against the IMolascuit period, were practically the same both as to production and cost 

 to produce. 



IG— 22J 



Ottawa. 



