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TABLE IX. 



Statements of Experiments continued loith eighteen cows, from June 8 

 to June 28, for twenty days. 



Average daily flow of milk from the eighteen cows, in pounds and hundredths, . 22.79 

 Average number of days after calving, ..,.,., • . 140.11 



Eighteen cows, in this trial, gnve 8,200.20 pounds of milk in 20 days — feed, pasture grass, only. 

 €ost of kcepirg, for 20 days, $25.74. Cost of milk, in this trial, a fraction less than 3.20 cents the 

 gallon of ten pounds. 



The cows, in this trial of 20 days, gained in weight, 17 pounds. 



