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lbs. on cut hay, and loss on uncut hay, 14 lbs. ; having eaten 

 in eight weeks, 2,106 lbs. hay ; 1,078 cut, and 1,028 lbs. uncut 

 hay; and in eleven weeks, 2,925 lbs. hay; 1,351 cut, and 1,574 

 lbs. uncut hay. 



Off ox, of same age, and time of trial same ; weight, at 

 commencement of trial, 1,500 lbs., at close of eight weeks, 

 1,601 lbs., at end of eleven weeks, 1,617 lbs. ; mean weight for 

 eight weeks, 1,552 lbs., for eleven weeks, 1,558| lbs. ; gain, in 

 eight weeks, 104 lbs. ; on cut, 17 lbs., on uncut hay, 87 lbs. ; 

 gain, in eleven weeks, 117 lbs. ; on cut hay, 32 lbs., on uncut 

 hay, 85 lbs. ; having eaten in eight weeks, 2,106 lbs., 1,028 lbs. 

 cut, and 1,078 lbs. uncut hay ; and eaten in eleven weeks, 2,925 

 lbs., 1,574 lbs. cut, and 1,351 lbs. uncut hay. 



The daily food of these cattle has been, in hay, about 2^-^ 

 per cent, of their live weight, or one pound in addition of 

 weight to every 18^^^^^ lbs. of hay eaten. 



The eight animals with which the before mentioned trials 

 were made, eat in eight weeks: — 



5,343 lbs. cut hay, | and gained in weight 401 lbs., or 13j9JL. 

 261 lbs. equivalent, ) lbs. hay, to 1 lb. in weight gained. 



and gained in weight, 239 lbs,, or 23 

 ^y^ lbs. hay, to 1 lb. in weight gained. 



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Greater gain on cut hay than on uncut hay, by 68 per cent., 

 and only 7|^ lbs. more cut hay consumed. 



Mr. Lincoln's two cows eat 1,150 lbs. cut hay, and gave 

 439| lbs. milk; and eat l,131i- lbs. uncut hay, and gave 4171 

 lbs. milk ; greater yield of milk on cut, than uncut hay, 22 lbs. or 

 |-| per cent., and only 18| lbs. cut hay in addition consumed. 



These experiments seem fully to have established the fact 

 that a much greater benejfit is derived from cutting good hay, as 

 food for cattle, than an equivalent for the expense of cutting, 

 if obliged to hire labor for that purpose. These experiments 

 were made under unfavorable circumstances. It is understood 

 that the cattle were unused to eat cut hay, and although some 

 of the cattle eat the cut hay readily, by the greater part it 



