COCOANUT MEAL. 



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Total Yield of Milk Products (Pounds)' — Concluded. 



Cocoanut Meal Ration. 



The 10 cows produced substantially the same amounts of 

 milk and milk solids on both rations. In the case of the total 

 milk fat the diiference is somewhat in favor of the cocoanut 

 meal ration (nearly 6 per cent.). This may have been due 

 to the influence of the oil in the cocoanut meal. 



Advei'se Influences. 



1. The attack of scours between halves. 



2. The feeding of a new lot of hay during the last two weeks 

 of the trial. The hay, however, was fed to each of the 10 cows 

 so that all were treated alike. 



3. While like amounts of gluten feed and cocoanut meal were 

 fed to each herd the cocoanut meal contained 6.49 per cent, of 

 moisture, while the gluten feed contained 10.28 per cent. Dur- 

 ing the entire experiment, therefore, the cows received 50.2 

 pounds more dry matter (.14 pound daily) in the form of 

 cocoanut meal than in the form of gluten feed. 



Inasmuch, however, as the cows ate rather less hay while 

 receiving the cocoanut meal, and as the total digestible nutri- 



1 Average daily yield. 



