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FEEDING TRIALS WITH DAIRY COWS, 



During the past winter a trial on the feeding of dairy 

 cows was carried out at Chipping Norton, under the direction 

 of the Agricultural Department, Reading College. The 

 main object of the trial was to gain information as to the 

 best and most profitable combination of foods for winter 

 feeding of milch cows, and to ascertain the influence of the 

 foods employed on the percentage of butter fat. At first it was 

 thought desirable to test a large number of foods, but owing 

 to the complications involved in a trial of this nature it was 

 finally decided to restrict the trial in the first place to the 

 following rations — 



Daily rations per cow employed in the trial. 



Food. 



Preliminary. 



Lot I. 



Lot II. 



Lot III. 



Mangels 



28 



28 



28 





Brewers 7 grains - 









20 



Oats (ground) .... 





4 



2 





Wheat 



1 



2 



1 





Beans ------ 





3 







Cotton cake (decorticated) 







5 



5 



Molassine Meal - - - 



2 









Thorley's Food ... - 



ii 









Barley straw chaff 



6 



6 



6 



6 



Hay 



20 



20 



20 ' 



20 



Twelve fairly large cows were selected and divided into 

 three lots. Each lot contained one recently calved cow, two 

 that had calved about two months, and one that had calved, 

 about four months before the trial began. 



The trial commenced on January 5th. During the folio w- 



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