HISTORY OF COWS. 



DURATION OF EXPERIMENT. 



Dates. 



Oct. 7 thru Nov. 10. 

 Nov. 25 thru Dec. 29. 



Molasses Ration (Cows). 



Daisy, Dora, Molly. 

 May, Fancy, Samantha. 



Corn Meal Ration (Cows). 



May, Fancy, Samantha. 

 Daisy, Dora, Molly. 



Care of the Cows : The experiment vi^as conducted in the experi- 

 ment barn especially set apart for such work. Each animal was 

 kept in a roomy stall, and was well carded and turned daily into a 

 yard from one to eight hours whenever the weather permitted. 



Method of Feeding: The cows were fed twice daily and watered 

 by the aid of a self watering device placed in each stall. The sev- 

 eral grains were well mixed and fed in two equal portions daily. 

 The molasses was weighed out, diluted with about an equal portion 

 of water, and well mixed with the dry grain. 



Character of the Feeds. All the feeds were free from objectionable 

 characteristics, such as musty or bad flavors or odors. The spring 

 wheat bran tested rather lower in protein than the average (12.95 

 per cent). The cottonseed meal tested 37.05 per cent, and the corn 

 meal 8.57 per cent of protein. The Porto Rico molasses was of the 

 usual character but contained rather more water than is commonly 

 found (28.10 per cent). The first cut hay was. a mixture of 

 timothy, Kentucky blue grass and clover. 



Sampling the Feeds. Small samples of grain were taken daily 

 and preserved in glass stoppered bottles. At the end of each half 

 the composite samples were tested for moisture, and at the end of 

 the experiment the two composites were mixed and analyzed. Each 



