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there is no secret about it, all information and 

 every facility is freely given to make examina- 

 tions ; and I will answer any calls upon me to 

 explain this, system and device before any 

 meeting of such bodies as Boards of Agricult- 

 ure or Experiment Stations. 



[From the Farm, Field, and Stockman, July 14, 1888.] 



EXPERIMENTS WITH MILK AND CREAM. 



BY S. M. COLCORD. 



From a herd of grade cows, fed on Colcord's 

 preserved corn, with half-rations of shorts and 

 cotton-seed, sixteen cows were taken from a 

 rich pasture of fresh grass, and kept in the 

 barn, the temperature being an average of 85. 

 The increase of milk upon 65 pounds daily 

 ration of this forage was one can daily, without 

 turning the cows out. 



June 15, sixteen pints of milk were taken, 

 one pint from each cow's, from the last quart of 

 each milking. It was mixed together, and set 

 by the Cooley system, submerged at a tem- 

 perature of 48 sixteen hours, the temperature 

 at the end of the setting being 58. The yield 

 of cream was four and one-half inches to eigh- 



