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HATCH EXPERIMENT SIWTION. 



[Jan. 



The two rations })roduced milk having practically the 

 same composition. 



Food Cost of Milk Products. 



In calculatino- the above results, srluten feed was charsred 

 at $27.72 a ton, Bibby's dairy cake at |oO, Ijran at $20, hay 

 at $15 and ro^ven at $14. The increased cost of the milk 

 and butter produced hy the Bibby's dairy cake ration was 

 due to the price asked for Bil)by's dairy cake. 



There appeared to have been a slight gain in live weight 

 produced by the gluten ration. During the Bibby's dairy 

 cake period the weight remained constant. 



1 . Bibby's dairy cake, a manufactured product, resembles 

 in cheniical composition and (b'gestibility standard wheat 

 middlings. It has a sweet taste and an agreeable flavor and 

 odor, due to the presence of the carob bean, fenugreek and 

 salt. 



2. It Avas found to contain slightly less digestible matter 

 than middlings, and some 20 per cent, less than gluten feed. 

 On the basis of digestible matter contained in the Bibby's 

 dairy cake and in first-class gluten feed, the former should 

 sell for 20 per cent. less a ton. 



3. AVhile the cake is readily eaten and highly relished by 



