118 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. [Jan. 



partly dry and partly green. I think, if you are feeding 

 your cows thirty pounds of ensilage a day and the same 

 amount or more of soiling crops, or if you are feeding both 

 ensilage and apple pomace, as we are at the present time, 

 say ten pounds a day of apple pomace and from twenty to 

 thirty-five pounds of ensilage, — you will find that the cows 

 will drink in a single time all that they need for twenty-four 

 hours, and if led up to the water a second time only a few of 

 them will drink, and they will merely stick their noses in. 

 I don't think you get enough gain from the extra watering to 

 pay for the extra time and trouble expended. 



Question. May I inquire the ratio that apple pomace 

 bears to good fodder? 



Professor Cooke. You mean as to its heating and flesh- 

 producing qualities ? 



Question. Yes, sir. 



Professor Cooke. I should have to give that from mem- 

 ory. I should say it stands about as one to ten ; that is, 

 about the same as ensilage. Its chemical composition is not 

 very much different from that of ensilage. Its feeding value, 

 I think, is fully equal to that of good ensilage. 



Question. Don't you think that if you feed a large herd 

 of dairy cows without giving them water three times a day 

 a great many of them will shrink in the amount of milk 

 produced ? 



Professor Cooke. I should say no. 



Mr. Waters. I have found that when I fed ensilage and 

 roots in the morning, cut fodder and oats at night, and hay 

 at noon, and did not water them three times a day, they 

 shrank in milk. 



Professor Cooke. They probably would shrink, at first. 

 A cow will shrink in milk whatever change you make. Any 

 change that upsets the natural run of the system will make 

 her shrink at first. If a cow is watered once a day for a 

 year, I think the product at the end of the year will be fully 

 as great as if she were watered twice a day. The animal 

 will adapt herself very easily to any regular system under 

 which she is fed. 



Mr. Waters. Yes ; but my experience has taught me 

 that a cow that is watered twice a day will give more milk 



