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to be the largest cows; but it does not appear that an 

 account was kept of the amount of food given to each kind. 

 In regard to size, Caspari made 18 experiments in feeding 

 milch cows, with a view of ascertaining how many pounds 

 of hay, or its equivalent, it required to make 100 Ibs. of 

 milk. He found, in Prussia, 100 Ibs. of hay, fed to Hol- 

 land cows, made 25K quarts of milk ; and the same fed to 

 the Allgauers, made 30.98 quarts of milk. At 11 dairies 

 in Saxony 100 Ibs. of hay fed produced, in 



Oldenburgers 25.40 quarts. 



Hollanders 26.10 " 



Allgauers 30.00 



Scurbs 23.65 " 



Villeroy's experiments resulted as follows : 



Hollanders 28.92 quarts per 100 Ibs. hay. 



Yorkshires 27.45 



Devons 19. 13 



Herefords 15.97 



Jerseys 26.33 



Allgauers 27.61 



These experiments all seem to tell the same story. The 

 Jerseys are the smallest, and peculiarly a milking breed ; 

 but they produced less, per a given quantity of food, than 

 either of the larger milking breeds. We should put the 

 Hollanders against the Jerseys as a fair test, because both 

 have been bred for a long period expressly as milk yielders, 

 and they both have a high reputation in that specialty. 



We will now give the German mode of feeding in Dr. 

 Rhode's 



MILK RATION, AT ELDENA, 



in Pomerania. This is one of the most celebrated agricul- 

 tural schools in Prussia. He details those experiments in 

 his chapter " On the Breeds of Cattle 'in the Kingdom of 

 Holland." We do not propose to go into the characteristics 

 of the breeds he describes, but merely to consider the 

 ration, and the result upon large and small cows. 



