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To ascertain the effect of good preserved 

 fodder fed in large quantity, I fed to a large 

 cow from 66 to over 70 pounds daily for 90 

 days, during which time she gained in weight 

 2 pounds 5 ounces daily. Her last feed, an 

 hour and a half before she was killed, was 19 

 pounds of bright, odorless forage, fed alone, 

 the acidity of which was equal to the acidity 

 in 1 1 ounces of commercial acetic acid. The 

 test was made by pressing 10 ounces of juice 

 from i pound of the forage, neutralizing with 

 liquor potash, and testing with litmus. The 

 contents of the stomach were immediately ex- 

 amined in the same way. One pound of it was 

 pressed the same as the sample before it was 

 fed, with same results, 10 ounces of juke from 

 16 ounces. Nothing found in the stomach 

 but this forage. The humidity the same as 

 before being eaten, and tested so nearly neu- 

 tral that I could not tell whether it leaned to 

 acid or alkali. 



The contents of the stomach were not offen- 

 sive, not more so than the forage before being 

 eaten, except the animal heat in it. Every 

 part of the animal was perfectly healthy. The 

 beef was fat, very meaty and well mottled. 

 This cow, before she was fed on this forage, 

 was in quite ordinary condition, and it was 



