450 



Feeds and Feeding. 



686. Description of the tests. — The first test was for cheese 

 production, the trial beginning May 12 and continuing fifteen 

 days, with twenty-five cows in each herd. 



The next trial was for the production of butter, with credits for 

 butter, solids not fat, and gains in live weight. There were twenty- 

 five cows in each herd, the trial beginning June 1 and continu- 

 ing ninety days. 



The third trial, beginning August 30, lasted thirty days, there . 

 being fifteen cows in each herd. In this trial butter only was 

 credited. 



The contest ended with a test of heifers, lasting twenty-one 

 days, — fat, solids, and live weight being credited. 



Summaries of each of the trials are presented in the following 

 tables: 



Cheese test May 12-26, 189S, fifteen days, twenty-five cows in each herd. 



Breed. 



Jersey 



Guernsey... 

 Short-horn, 



Total 

 net 

 gain. 



$119 82 

 88 30 

 81 3U 



Feed Consumed. 



Breed. 



S3 

 5m 



Lbs. 

 "677" 



Jersey 



Guernsey .. 



Short-ho^n 



Returns from i^'eed. 



Breed. 



Jersey 



Guernsey... 

 Short-horn. 



Lbs. 



13,296.4 

 10,938.6 

 12,186.9 





Lbs. 



1,877.4 

 1,503.8 

 1,544.8 



O 



Lbs. 



1,4.51.8 

 1,1.30.6 

 1,077.6 



Si 



Lbs. 



11,579 

 9,667 

 10,889 





Lbs. 



327 

 480 

 709 



■-- 0? CD 



gSoo 



Lbs. 



9.16 

 9.07 

 11.31 



OS- 

 °oft 



.0i;8 



.01)7 

 .092 



S .083 

 .078 

 .076 



