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one cow, as compared with that of another one, may cost the 

 owner of the animals from forty to ninety per cent, and 

 more in one case than in the other. A careful comparison 

 of the subsequent detailed statement of our late experiment 

 with the previous one, tends to show that a good gluten meal, 

 at the stated cost, ought to be considered a valuable addi- 

 tion to our commercial concentrated fodder articles. The 

 rations fed during the first feeding period and at the close of 

 the experiment (IV. Period), deserve from a standpoint, a 

 ti-ial on the part of dairymen. Our results were satisfactory 

 as far as the yield of milk of a good quality is concerned. 



I. — Record of Melia. 



Amount of Digestible Matter contained in the Food consumed. 



