The following table is constructed on the basis given in 

 above rule, it is not however, claimed that the figures are very 

 close, but I have found them to agree with actual weighing, in a 

 fair proportion of cases, and it is given in this bulletin with the 

 hope that those who have the opportunity will test it and report 

 their results of actual weighing, in this way in time a table can 

 be arranged which will be much better than the present one. 



STEERS, OXEN, ETC. 



This table will enable those who have had but little experi- 

 ence in weighing, to form some idea of the amount of food re- 

 quired. A few examples will serve to illustrate the method of 

 computing a ration : 



Take a cow giving milk, and weighing 900 pounds, turn to 

 table B, and we see that a cow giving milk, and weighing one 

 thousand pounds requires to be furnished daily with food enough 

 to contain 2)^ pounds of digestable albumenoids, and 13)^ 

 pounds of carbo-hydrate equivalents, but the case we have taken 

 does not call for so much, as the cow only weighs 900 pounds, 

 the following proportion is capable of giving the exact amount 

 required. 



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