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Ration D. 



Ration E. 



These rations are full ones for one-thousand-pound cows, 

 but would probably prove ample for cows weighing eleven 

 hundred pounds ; for cows of nine hundred pounds weight 

 from fifteen to twenty per cent less may be used. 



Question. What quality of salt hay have you analyzed? 



Professor Whitcher. I have had all three varieties 

 analyzed. I find there is a great difierence in them. They 

 are classified as low marsh, high marsh and thatch. The 

 results of analyses I have given are the average of all 

 analyses obtainable. They vary somewhat, but not as much 

 as you would expect. I think you would rather have the 

 black grass than either of the three, but on diflerent marshes 



