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varied very little. The averages were : Lot A, spec, grav., 

 1029 ; solids, 13.81 ; fat, 3.G3 per cent. Lot B, spec, grav., 

 1033; solids, 14.1() ; fat, 3.75 per cent. The cream from 

 Lot B was, however, much easier to churn, and made de- 

 cidedly better butter. Lot B, while ensilage fed, drank an 

 average of 25 pounds of water per day and head, often 

 drinking but once in three days and rarely twice in a day. 

 Lot A, during the same period, seldom failed to drink twice 

 a day, and averaged 76 pounds 6 ounces water daily per 

 head. The ensilage in this trial was very acid and poor in 

 quality. 



(F.) Two pens of lambs, ten or eleven months old, three 

 in each, were selected from a large number for evenness of 

 weight and feeding capacity. They were treated alike for 

 two weeks, then weighed. Pen No. 1, 213 pounds; Pen 

 No. 2, 21G pounds. They were then fed for 42 days as 

 follows : To each pen, 2 pounds corn meal and 1 pound 

 cotton-seed meal per day; to Pen No. 1, 1 pound cut hay 

 and 1 pound cut oat straw ; to Pen No. 2,12 pounds corn 

 ensilage (fodder corn in tassels, without ears). Gain in 

 weight, 6 weeks: Pen No. 1, 32 pounds; Pen No. 2, 281 

 pounds. No. 1, dry fed, drank an average of 10 pounds 

 water per day ; No. 2, ensilage fed, 1| pounds per day. 

 The gain of Pen No. 1 was worth $3.20, and cost $2.98; 

 the gain of Pen No. 2 was worth $2.85, cost $2.48 (manure 

 and labor reckoned as offsetting one another). 



(G.) A young Jersey bull was fed on ensilage alone, but 

 of ditl'erent kinds, for the months of April and May, 1884. 

 After he became accustomed to this diet his weight, at the 

 beginning of the test, was 712 pounds; at its close, 710 

 pounds; meanwhile the range was 707 to 718 pounds. Of 

 corn ensilage, he ate an average of 59 pounds per day, 75 

 pounds being the most in one day. Of amber cane he con- 

 sumed 7G pounds a day. Of mixed amber cane and rye he ate 

 75 pounds a day. Of winter rye ensihige alone, 47 pounds. 

 Of clover ensihige, 51 pounds a day, and of ensilage of the 

 Japanese or Soja bean. Go pounds. For days at a time he 

 drank no water, and averaged but 9^ pounds per da^^ while 

 fed on ensihige alone. His best drink was on a very rainy 

 day, while fed rye ensilage ; he then drank 26 pounds at one 



