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BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



TABLE III. 



Statements of Experiments continued with eleven coios, from Fehruary 

 10 to February 29, for twenty days. 



NAMES. 



Rosa, 



Lady Devon, 



Spot, 



Milly, 



Chambcrlin, 



Nora, 



Dora, 



Alice, 



Redneck, . 



Delia, 



Haywood, 



Xi 

 _bp 



tOm 

 g ^ 



Quantity of feed, in pounds 

 and hundredths. 



6^ 



a 



O 







11 13.42 

 13.50 

 8 1 13.12 



8 ! 18.25 



9 ' 15.62 

 9 j 13.36 

 9 I 15.50 



11.75 

 V 14.00 

 9 14.00 

 11 12.56 



2.50 

 2.50 

 2.50 

 2.50 

 2.50 

 2.50 

 2.50 

 2.50 

 2.50 

 2.50 

 2.50 



as 





a 



■S ° Is" 



90 



132 



42 



50 



70 



101 



57 



224 



27 



30 



8 



Average daily flow of milk from the eleven cows, in pounds and hundredths, . . 17.22 

 Average number of days after calving, 75.54 



Eleven cows, in this trial, consumed in 20 days, 3,100.60 pounds corn stalks, 4,400 pounds of car- 

 rots, 550 pounds of shorts, and 1,010 pounds of meadow hay. 



Estimating stalks at i cent the pound, $15 50 



4,400 pounds carrots, at | cent the pound, 22 00 



5.J0 " shorts, at 1^ cent the pound, 8 25 



1,010 " meadow hay, 5 05 



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Cost of keeping eleven cows 20 days, $50 80 



The yield of milk from these eleven cows, in 20 days, was 3,787.40 pounds, costing 13.41 cents the 

 gallon of ten pounds. 

 The cows in this trial, gained in 20 days, 109 pounds in weight. 



