SECRETARY'S REPORT. 



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TABLE IV. 



Statements of Experiments continued with fourteen cows, from March 

 1 to March 2^, for twenty days. 



NAMES. 



llosa, 



Lady Devon, 



Spot, 



MiUy, . 



Chamberlin, 



Nora, 



Dora, 



Ecdneck, . 



Delia, 



Gentle, 



Haywood, 



Whiteface, 



Ida, . 



Victoria, . 



943 



871 



866 



1,006 



1,005 



902 



1,000 



813 



976 



911 



947 



815 



795 



933 



1,030 

 950 

 918 



1,119 



1,020 

 972 



1,022 

 880 



1,085 

 970 

 988 

 845 

 815 



1,058 



985 

 910 

 892 



1,062 



1,012 

 937 



1,011 

 846 



1,005 

 941 

 908 

 830 

 805 



1,010 



o 



Quantity of feed, in pounds 

 and hundredths. 



'5} ^ 





4^ 



Si 



2.00 

 2.00 

 2.00 

 2.00 

 2.00 

 2.00 

 2.00 

 2.00 

 2.00 

 2.00 

 2.00 

 2.00 

 2.00 

 2.00 



20.00 

 20.00 

 20.00 

 20.00 

 20.00 

 20.00 

 20.00 

 20.00 

 20.00 

 20.00 

 20.00 

 20.00 

 20.00 

 20.00 



2.50 

 2.50 

 2.50 

 2.50 

 2.50 

 2.50 

 2.50 

 2.50 

 2..50 

 2.50 

 2.50 

 2.50 

 2.50 

 2.50 







18.00 

 16.00 

 17.42 

 19.25 

 15.50 

 17.81 

 19.£0 

 23.00 

 19.93 

 21.56 

 25.56 

 27.93 

 23.12 

 7.68 



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1.83 

 1.76 

 1.95 

 181 

 1.53 

 1.90 

 1.93 

 2.72 

 1.98 

 2.29 

 2.64 

 3.36 

 2.87 

 0.76 



110 



152 

 62 

 70 

 90 



121 

 77- 

 47 

 50 

 18 

 28 

 5 

 10 



270 



Average daily flow of milk from the fourteen cows, in pounds and hundredths, . 19.45 

 Average number of days after calving, 79.30 



The fourteen cows, in this trial, consumed, in 20 days — 



4,894.60 pounds of English hay, cut, estimated at I cent the pound, 

 5,6U0 " carrots, at ^ cent the pound, 



700 " shorts, at 1| cent the pound, 



560 " meadow hay, at ^ cent the pound, .... 



Cost of keeping fourteen cows 20 days. 



536 72 



28 00 



10 50 



2 80 



$78 02 



These fourteen cows gave, in 20 days, 5,445.20 pounds of milk, which cost 14.32 cents the gallon 

 of ten pounds. 

 The gain in weight of the fourteen cows was 809 pounds in 20 days. 



