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teen qtiarts per day, and measured the milk the first fdut 

 days. I found they decreased on an average, three pints 

 each per day. The next four days 1 fed them with about 

 an equal quantity of rowen and coarse hay, which increased 

 the milk full up to the quantity when fed with shorts. 



The next experiment I commenced December 25th, 1852, 

 by selecting three of my best cows as nearly equal in size^ 

 condition and goodness as I could. 



No. 1, eight years old, dropped her calf Nov 25th. 

 No. 2, nine *' '« " " " '• " 



No. 3, eight '' " '« " " Dec. 2d, 



I continued the experiment eight weeks, giving to each 

 cow the same money's worth of the different kinds of 

 feed by weight as the same cost at the time, viz : Shorts, 

 twenty-six dollars per ton — Oil meal, thirty dollars per ton — ' 

 Indian meal, eighty cents per bushel of fifty lbs. — Rye 

 meal, one dollar per bushel of fifty lbs.— giving to each cow 

 fifty-two and a half cents worth per week, seven and one 

 half cents worth per day. 



The first week forty-two lbs. of shorts were weighed for 

 each cow, and fed night and morning, being about four and 

 One half quarts each time, wet with six quarts of water, two 

 hours before feeding. 



No. 1 gave in the seven days 82 1-2 qts. beer measure. 



No. 2 '* " " 78 1-4 " " " 



No. 3 " '« " 79 " '• " 



Total, 239 3-4 quarts. 



Second week, thirty-five lbs. of oil meal weie weighed 

 for each cow, wet and fed same as the shorts, being about 

 four qts. per day. 



No. 1 gave in seven days 87 1-4 qts. 



No. 2 " " " 81 3-4 '' 



No. 3 " " '' 82 1-4 " 



Total, 251 1-4 qts. 



