MS MILCH-KINE. 

 Caseum 



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Ash of caseum 



Water 87.7 



100.0 



2d EXPERIMENT. 



207 DAYS AFTER CALVING. 



Fea with turnips and cut straw, (the ration consisting of turnips 

 equal to 29.7 lbs., and straw equal to 3.3 lbs. of hay,) the same cow 

 gave in the course of eight days 84.4 pints of milk, or 10.5 pints per 

 day. The composition of this milk was : 



Caaeum 8.0 \ 



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Ash of caseum. 0.2 ) 



Water 87.6 



100.0 

 The animal discussed her provender with good appetite, but the 

 ration was too large ; about 11 lbs. of the turnips being left each day 

 unconsumed. 



3d EXPERIMENT. 



215 DAYS AFTER CALVING. 



The ration here consisted of : 



Field-beet, an equivalent for 29.7 lbs. of hay. 

 Chopped straw " 8.6 " 



In the course of fourteen days the quantity of milk obtained 

 amounted to 137.6 pints, or 9.8 pints per diem, and was composed 

 as below : 



Caseum 8.4 



»?"«' f 2 y Solidfl 12.9 



Milk sugar 6.8 f '^"""° ■^*-«' 



Ash of caseum O.f 



Water 87.1 



( 



100.0 



4th EXPERIMENT. 



229 DAYS AFTER CALVING. 



The ration consisted of: 



Kaw potatoes equivalent to 29.7 lbs of haj. 

 Chopped straw " 8.6 " 



In the course of eleven days the cow gave 96.1 pints of milk, or 

 at the rate of 8.7 pints per day, the fluid consisting of: 

 Caseum 8.4^ 



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Ash of caseum 0.2; 



Water 86.5 



100.0 



The cow did not do well upon this regimen : she became heated, 

 and refused one-half the straw. In a general way we do not give 

 tubers to a greater extent than is equivj>^ent to one-holf of the allow- 

 ance of hay, in which proportion cows d<> very well upon raw potatoes. 



