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more, the dry matter which it does carry contains con- 

 siderably less protein. A pound of skim-milk furnishes 

 on the average more than four times as much protein 

 as an equal amount of whey. Due to the differences 

 in methods employed in the manufacture of cheese, whey 

 is quite variable in composition and value. 



TABLE XCVII. COMPOSITION OF WHEY COMPARED WITH 

 SKIM-MILK l 



Day of the Ontario Agricultural College conducted two 

 experiments in which sweet and sour whey, with meal, 

 was compared with meal alone. The averaged results 

 of these two trials are shown in Table XCVIII. Two 

 pounds of whey were fed with 1 pound of meal, which 

 was made up of shorts, barley, and wheat or peas. 



TABLE XCVIII. WHEY AND MEAL VERSUS MEAL ALONE 2 



1 Appendix, Henry and Morrison's "Feeds and Feeding." 



2 Ont. Agr. Coll. Rpt., 1896. 



