1858.] 



SENATE— No. 4. 



219 



Memorandum of feeding six Cows at the State Farm, Westborour/li, fifleen days, 

 from March 7, to March 21, both inclusive, on cut EncjUsh hay andfve pounds 

 of shorts, dailij — shorts given dry. 



In this trial the six cows consumed twenty-two hundred and six 

 pounds of English hay, (tliree pounds less than in the last trial,) and 

 four hundred and fifty pounds of shorts, and gained in weight one 

 hundred and fifty-two pounds. Supposing the gain in weight to be 

 worth four cents the pound, and to be attributable to the shorts as it 

 fairly may be, the consumption of hay being only two pounds less 

 than in the last trial, the value of the gain in weight would be $6.08, 

 showing the shorts to be worth 1.35 cents the pound, equal to $27 the 

 ton. 



