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PUBLIC i)UC UMEiX T — No . 



15 



I. 



FEEDING EXPERIMENTS WITH MILCH COWS 



(TWO). 



1. General Feeding Experiments with Milch C^ows. 

 October, 1892, to July, 1893. 



[Grain feed: Buffalo gluten feed, wheat liran and cotton-seed meal; coarse feed: 

 English hay, corn stover and corn and soja-bean ensilage.] 



Objects of the Experiment. 



1. To study the comparative feeding effects of English 

 hay, corn stover and corn and soja-b'ean ensilage upon the 

 cost, quantity and quality of the milk produced. 



2. The comparative feeding value of ro^\'en vs. hay of 

 peas and oats. 



Attention is also called to the value of the manurial ingre- 

 dients ill the feed consumed, and to the value of the manure 

 produced l)y the different rations fed : also the quality of the 

 milk produced during the different feeding periods. 



History of Coivs. 



As will be seen from the above record, these cows are 

 grades of various descriptions and of different milking 

 periods. They probably represent average cows of the 

 various herds kept by farmers in this section of the State. 



