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Feeds and Feeding. 



686. Description of the tests. The first test was for cheese 

 production, the trial beginning May 12 and continuing fifteen 

 days, with twenty-five cows in each herd. 



The next trial was for the production of butter, with credits for 

 butter, solids not fat, and gains in live weight. There were twenty- 

 five cows in each herd, the trial beginning June 1 and continu- 

 ing ninety days. ; 



The third trial, beginning August 30, lasted thirty days, there 

 being fifteen cows in each herd. In this trial butter only was 

 credited. 



The contest ended with a test of heifers, lasting twenty-one 

 days, fat, solids, and live weight being credited. 



Summaries of each of the trials are presented in the following 

 tables: 



Cheese test May 12-86, 1893, fifteen days, twenty -five cows in each herd. 



Feed Consumed. 



Returns from Feed. 



