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this may perhaps be considered a pretty wide variation, but I 

 believe the cheapness which we can produce starchy foods, 

 more than compensates for any loss that may result in quantity 

 or quality of milk from the reduced quantity of albuminoids. 

 The factor of cost of foods has been too much overlooked in 

 American" investigations, so that in pointing out the errors of 

 the too common 'practice of feeding corn meal exclusively, we 

 have tended "toward the other' extreme. ' 



In - the:" following computed rations the grain rations are 

 given" i-n pounds; and in parentheses are given the quarts and 

 parts of quarts, coinpiited from the following table, which gives 

 the Weigiit of the various graihs per half bushel and per quart^ 



WEIGHT OF G.RAINS. 



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