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years, may be relied upon as giving an accurate value to 

 the feeds mentioned ; the more so, as they have been 

 confirmed by actual feeding in a dairy of fifteen cows for 

 a still longer time. It is easy to trace in these figures 

 the difference between the feeds given, which is really 

 the test of the values. The cow was twenty-two months 

 old when record began, and had calved two months pre- 

 viously.' She was a pure-bred Jersey, of a noted butter 

 family. The feed through all the winters included five 

 pounds of clover hay cut and wetted and mixed with the 

 feed morning and noon, and five pounds of loose hay at 

 noon. Every part of the management was the same 

 every day, excepting that when there was grass, pasture 

 was used instead of the hay, and the meal was given dry 

 with a little fine grass r 



PRODUCT OF BUTTER, FIRST CALVING. 



Feed. 1880. Lbs. butter. Av. per day. 



2 lbs. bran j February 33 ^^ 1.25 lbs. 



8 lbs. corn meal . ( March SS'/a 1.45 



6 lbs. bran and midlings S April 28'/2 .95 



)May .26 .84 



2 lbs. bran (June 2&^ ^ 1.39 



3 lbs. palm nut meal ] July . . . : 36 Va 1.18 



2 lbs. bran. (August 38v'2 1.22 



2 lbs. corn meal A September . . .44 1.45 



2 lbs. cotton-seed meal ( October 393/4 1-28 



SECOND CALVING. 



1881. 



2 lbs. bran ( April, 15 day 8.23 1/4 1.53 



2 lbs. malt sprouts \ May 52 1.70 



^ lbs. cotton-seed meal ( June 49'/4 1.60 



4 lbs. corn meal i July, 12 days .22 1.83 



2 lbs. cotton-seed meal .-. •< 5 days sick with garget. 



\ July, 14 days .ll'/^ .80 



2 lbs. bran and 3 lbs. oats and S August 45 1.45 



com meal - I Sep1;ember . . .37 1.20 



2 lbs. bran and 3 lbs. fine bolted ( October . .51 Va 1.66 



yellow corn meal -.-< Novem.ber 46 1.54 



(December 471/2 1.55 



1882. 



2 lbs. bran - f January 49V4 1.59 



2 lbs. fine meal ..- ! February 48 1.81 



1 lb. cotton-seed meal ] March 34 1.01 



[April, 2 days-. 3V4- 1.62 



