272 EXPERIMENTAL FARMS 



1-2 EDWARD VII., A. 1902 



A study o* the above records would tend merely to emphasize the conclusions 

 reached in last year's experiment, namely : — 



1. That the percentage of butter fat in milk, from morning or evening milking, 

 is influenced by the comparative length of interval between the milking hours. 



2. The richer milk is found to be produced after the shorter interval. 



3. Where intervals between milkings are equal, no appreciable difference appears 

 to exist in either the quality or quantity of the milk drawn in the morning or in the 

 evening. 



Periods of change in hours of milking are evidently periods of excitement and 

 affect individuals differently. 



COW EEEDIXG EXPEEIMENT. 



DRY VERSUS WET FEED. 



Feeding cows "barley, oats and oil meal dry versus Iran and gluten meal wet. 



As a study of the tables will reveal, the two lots of cows of three each were fed 

 for seven days on similar rations. On the eighth day the rations were changed, both 

 lots being fed ensilage and hay, but lot 1 being given a meal ration of barley, oats and 

 oil meal, fed dry, and lot 2 a meal ration of bran and gluten feed, fed wet. These 

 rations were continued for 14 days, when the rations were interchanged between the 

 lots of cows. The results from equally good rations should with such an interchange 

 of rations have been quite similar. The results show a considerable difference how- 

 ever. As a study of the following tables will show, the ration fed wet gave a daily 

 aggregate of 114 pounds milk testing 3 -83 per cent butter fat, equivalent to 4 :365 

 pounds butter fat, while the same cows, fed on the dry ration, gave 11GJ pounds milk, 

 testing 3 -99 per cent butter fat, equivalent to 4 -627 pounds butter fat, an increase of 

 2% pounds of milk, of '16 per cent butter fat, and of - 262 pounds butter fat, an in- 

 crease of 6 per cent in favour of dry feed. 



