so 
Totm Milk. 
obtaining these grains, and partly because it was desirable to test 
the value as cow food of sewage-grown Italian rye-grass given by 
itself, the mode of feeding has been altered. Several cowhouses 
were supplied with grass alone during the past summer, receiving 
nothing else whatever, and about \\ cwt. a day was the average 
consumption per cow ; and though the substitution of a bushel 
of grains for i cwt. of grass was at once followed by an increased 
yield of milk, yet the latter was so much the dearer food tiiat 
the balance of profit Avas against it as long as grass was not 
valued at more than 18s. a ton upon the land. In winter we are 
giving mangolds, hay, and meal, without grains. In one shed at 
present 25 cows nearly dry are receiving 16 cwts. of mangolds, 
7 trusses of hay, 100 lbs. of barley meal, and 80 lbs. of cake ; 
which is 70 lbs. of mangolds, 8 lbs. of hay (these are given 
as chaff and pulp), 4 lbs. of barley meal, and about 3 lbs. of 
cake per fatting cow. In another shed where 58 are being 
fed, 17 of which are freshly calved cows, and the rest are in about 
half milk, the consumption is 2 tons of mangolds, 12 trusses of 
hay, 7 trusses of straw (all chaffed and pulped and mixed) 56 lbs. 
of meal, and 36 lbs. of cake. This amounts to about 80 lbs. of 
mangolds, and 16 lbs. of mixed hay and straw (with 3 or 4 lb. 
of meal and cake to a few of those most nearly dry or in 
heaviest milk). The 17 cows in full milk get 13 lbs. of hay, 
76 lbs. of mangolds, 2 lbs. of meal, and 2 lbs. of cake a-piece, 
costing at current prices rather under 2s. a-piece. They gave 
at first on the average 2 barn gallons (=16 quarts) a-piece, 
which are worth delivered in London os. Ad. 
I add here, from the paper on this subject read before the 
Society of Arts, a table giving the daily winter rations of a cow 
in 13 cowhouses, of which the owners were good enough to 
describe to me the management : — 
No. 
Cows 
Milked. 
Daily AVinter ration of a Cow. 
Grains. 
Hay. 
Distillery 
Wash. 
Mangolds. 
Meal or Cake. 
No. 
bushels. 
lbs. 
gallons. 
lbs. 
lbs. 
1 
lOS 
15 
30 
3 (F) 
2 
40 
1 
14 
40 
2 (F) 
68 
1 
V 
42 
? 
4 
10 
H 
12 
CO 
2CF) 
f) 
100 
;i 
9 
56 
3 
fi 
20 
1 
6 
56 
3 
7 
y 
1 
14 
28 
Pint of condiment. 
8 
50 
1 
12 
28 
Peck of bran. 
9 
V 
u 
9 
•• 
28 
Pint of meal. 
10 
15 
30 
? 
11 
.50 
1 
14 
25 
5 
12 
V 
u 
60 
4 
13 
? 
ll 
,1 
G 
42 
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