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TABLE XVII. 



Statements of Experiments continued with eleven cows, fi'om Novemher 

 \Q to December 6, for tioenty days. 



Average daily flow of milk from the eleven cows, in pounds and hundredths, . 9.10 



Average number of days after calving, 187.27 



Eleven cows, in this trial, gave, daily, 100.08 pounds of milk, or, in 20 days, 2,001.60 pounds. 

 The same cows consumed, the fifteen first days, while at grass, 1,320 pounds of corn stover, and 

 in the five days, in the barn, they consumed 1,059 pounds of corn stover. In 20 days they con- 

 sumed — 



2,379 pounds corn stover, estimated at | cent the pound, $11 89 



15 days in pasture, estimated at 7 cents the day, 11 55 



Cost of keeping eleven cows 20 days, ....■..,. g!23 44 



Cost of milk, in this trial, 11.71 cents the gallon of ten pounds. 

 Gain in weight, 86 pounds in 20 days. 



