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BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



TABLE I. 



Statements of average weight, gain and loss, of each cow, morning and 

 evening, of January \st and 20th, 1856, and the average for twenty 

 days ; also, age of cows, kind aiid quantity of daily feed consumed 

 by each cow, in jjounds arid hundredths ; average daily flow of milk 

 in pounds and hundredths ; daily per cent, of milk on live weight 

 of each cow ; numler of days after calving, and average daily flow 

 of milk of fourteen coivs,for twenty days. 



NAMES. 





. a 



6.S' 

 t-, '^ 



" to 



^ a 



.a > 



12; 



Rosa, 



Lady Devon, 



Spot, 



MiUy, 



Chamberlin, 



Nora, 



Dora, 



Kendall, . 



Dolly, 



Cherry, . 



Gentle, 2d, 



Kedheifer, 



Nelly, . 



Alice, 



0.58 

 0.58 

 0.48 

 0.58 

 0.58 

 0.58 

 058 

 0.58 

 0.58 

 0.58 

 0.5S 

 0.58 

 0.58 

 0.58 



17.87 



17.00 



20.54 



25.87 



15.12 



17.18 



22.75 



1.42 



9.12 



4.00 



7.12 



5.42 



8.36 



6.75 



1,83 

 1.74 

 2.20 

 2.32 

 1.41 

 ,1.83 

 2.14 

 0.12 

 0.74 

 0.43 

 0.70 

 0.59 

 1.00 

 0.70 



50 



92 



2 



10 



30 



61 



17 



285 



186 



210 



240 



282 



220 



184 



Average daily flow of milk from the fourteen cows, in pounds and hundredths, . 12.75 

 Average number of days after calving, 133.50 



The fourteen cows in this trial consumed 5,085.60 pounds of meadow hay and corn stalks, one- 

 half each, 5,600 pounds of carrots, and 162 pounds of shorts. 



Estimating the hay and stalks at ^ cent the pound, they will amount to . . $25 41 



Carrots, at i cent the pound, ' . . 28 00 



Shorts, at 1^ cents the pound, 2 43 



Making the cost of keeping fourteen cows 20 days. 



S55 84 



The same cows gave in 20 days, 3,570.40 pounds of milk, which cost 15.64 cents the gallon of ten 

 pounds. 

 The food proved insufficient, and the fourteen cows lost in 20 days, 210 pounds in weight. 



