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night. Every article of food was carefully weighed, and all re- 

 jected was weighed back. The water was also weighed, and 

 the milk of each cow weighed separately, and recorded. The 

 churning was done twice a week. It is a question whether the 

 fodder or the ensilage was the more profitable, as, when the cost 

 of building the silo and the extra cost of ensilaging the crop is 

 taken into account, it might over-balance the advantage. 



We have no estimate of the cost of securing the corn-fod- 

 der, but as its weight was less than one-third as much as the 

 ensilage, and it was not run through the cutter, it is safe to 

 say that would not exceed one-third the cost of the ensilage. 

 Then the labor of feeding to each cow an average of nearly 

 one hundred pounds of ensilage must have been considerably 

 more than that of feeding the fodder, of which only thirty-five 

 pounds per cow per day was fed. 



From Professor Henry's report I also take the account of 

 feeding hay and ensilage to calves. "Two calves were placed 

 in one box-stall, and three in another. The food allowed each 

 calf was two pounds of oil-meal, two of bran, and four of oats, 

 per day, divided into two feeds. In addition to this, the two 

 animals in the first lot received all the ensilage they could eat, 

 while those in the second lot were fed blue-grass hay of me- 

 dium quality. One calf in each lot was a full-blood Holstein, 

 the others were full-blood Short-horns. All were born in May 

 or June of the previous spring. They had been raised on skim- 

 milk, and were in good condition. The weights of the several 

 animals, on January 7th, were as follows: 



LOT 1. 

 Holstein heifer, ........ 550 



Short-horn bull, 522 



LOT 2. 



Holstein heifer, ........ 476 



Short-horn bull, 474 



Short-horn heifer, 448 



" They were fed, carded, watered, and weighed regularly each 

 day during the experiment, and in fine weather allowed exer- 

 cise in the open air. 



