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CATTLE AND DAIRY FARMING. 



Analysis. 



* In these calculations consideration is given to the period from the death of Nos. 2, 3, and 5, to the 

 end of the year. 



Average weight of milk per gallon pounds.. 16Jf 



Average cream percentage do 15J 



Proportion of butter to niilk (ounces to a gallon) 8.972 



Proportion of butter to cream (ounces to a quart) 1-H 



Proportion of milk to butter (quarts to a pound) .: 7.13? 



Comparative richness of milk at -different stages of tlie same milking, showing the groat im- 

 portance of thoroughly draining a cote's udder. [In each qase the result given is the 

 mean of six days' -testing. ] 



Food of cows during the year 1883, with one or two trifling exceptions in individual caws. 



Jan. 1 to Feb. 19. i peck bean-meal, 3 pecks grains, J peck malt dust, 2 pecks chaff, 8 pounds hay, 10 



pounds carrots per day; two to four hours each day on grass. 

 Feb. 20 to Apr. 2. The same, with 10 pounds of mangold instead of carrots; three to six hours on 



grass. 



Apr. 3 to May 7. Hay reduced to 4 pounds, other food same; four to ten hours on grass. 

 May 8 to May 21. J peck bean-meal, 3 pecks grains, peck malt dust, 2 pecks chaff, 4 pounds hay, 10 



pounds mangold ; ten to twenty hours on grass. 



May 22 to July 9. J peck bean-meal, J peck crushed oats, 1J peck grains, 1 peck chaff, 10 pounds man- 

 gold; twenty hours on grass. 

 July 10 to 20. J peck bean-meal, J peck crushed oats, 1 peck chaff, 1 peck grains ; twenty hours on 



grass. 

 Aug. 21 to Oct. 26. J peck bean-meal, & peck crushed oats, 3 pecks grains, 2 pecks chaff; twenty hours 



on grass. 

 Oct. 27 to Nov. 20. J peck bean-meal, J peck crushed oats, 3 pecks grains, 2 pecks chaff, and 4 pounds 



hay ; eight hours a day on grass. 

 Nov. 21 to Dec. 31. J'peck bean-meal, peck crushed oats, 1 peck grains, 10 pounds carrots, 7 pounds 



hay, J peck malt dust; .two to four hours a day on grass. 



