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CATTLE AND DAIfiY FAKMlNG. 



Analysis. 



* In these calculations consideration is given to the period from the death of Nos. 2, 3, and 5, to tne 

 end of the year. 



Average weight of milk per gallon pounds.. 1 



Average cream percentage do 1 



Proportion of butter to milk (ounces to a gallon) 8. 



Proportion of butter to cream (ounces to a quart)................. 1. 



Proportion of milk to butter (quarts to a pound) 7.13? 



Comparative richness of millc at different stages of the same milking, showing the groat im- 

 portance of thoroughly draining a ootc's udder. [In each case the result given is the 

 mean of six days' testing.'] 



Food of cows during the year 1883, with one or two trifling exceptions in individual cases. 



Jan. 1 to Feb. 19. J peck bean-meal, 3 pecks grains, \ peck malt dust, 2 pecks chaff, 8 pounds hay, 10 



pounds carrots per day; two to four hours each day on grass. 

 Feb. 20 to Apr. 2.< The same, with 10 pounds of mangold instead of carrots; three to six hours on 



grass. 



Apr. 3 to May 7. Hay reduced to 4 pounds, other food same; four to ten hours on grass. 

 May 8 to May 21. J peck bean-meal, 3 pecks grains, i peck malt dust, 2 pecks chaff, 4 pounds hay, 10 



pounds mangold ; ten to twenty hours on grass. 



May 22 to July 9. J peck bean-meal, J peck crushed oats, \\ peck grains, Ipeck chaff, 10 pounds man- 

 gold; twenty hours on grass. 

 July 10 to 20. J peck bean-meal, & peck crushed oats, 1 peck chaff, \\ peck grains ; twenty hours on 



grass. 

 Aug. 21 to Oct. 26. \ peck bean-meal, & peck crushed oats, 3 pecks grains, 2 pecks chaff; twenty hours 



on grass. 

 Oct. 27 to Nov. 20. ^ peck bean-meal, J peck crushed oats, 3 pecks grains, 2 pecks chaff, and 4 pounds 



hay; eight hours a day on grass. 

 Ifav. 21 to Dec. 31. \ peck bean-meal, peck crushed oats, 1 peck grains, 10 pounds carrots, 7 pounds 



na y. i peck malt dust; two to four hours a day on grass. 



