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Experiment II. — Winter, 1904. 



Object of the Experiment. — The object of this experiment 

 was quite .similar to the one already described ; namely, to 

 see if corn silage could not l)e employed in place of wheat 

 bran as a distributer of the heavy concentrates. 



Plan of the Experiment. — This experiment was conducted 

 on the reversal plan. The cows were divided into two lots 

 of four each. In the first half of the experiment one lot 

 received the so-called bran ration at the same time the other 

 lot received the silaofc ration. In the second half these con- 

 ditious were reversed. 



Duration of Experiment. 



First Half. 



Care of Animals and of the Product. — The general care 

 of the animals and the method of feeding and of sampling 

 the milk have been described in the preceding experiment. 

 Each cow was weig-hed for three consecutive davs at the 

 beginning and end of each half of the experiment, the weigh- 

 ino- bcino; done in the afternoon befoi-e feeding and watering. 



Cliaracter of the Feeds. — The weights of a quart of the 

 two grain mixtures were about the same as those fed in the 

 former experiment, the bran ration being much the more 

 bulky. The bran was derived from winter wheat, and was 

 light and flaky. Corn meal was used in place of corn and 

 cob meal, the latter not beino; available. The cotton-seed 

 meal and flour middlings were of the usual good quality. 



