MANAGEMENT OF DAIRY CATTLE. 
27 
It was insoluble in alcohol and strong acetic acid. Its solu- 
tion in water presented the same milk}' appearance as the fresh 
decoction of liver. It gave no reaction with the sugar tests, 
nor was it susceptible of undergoing fermentation. It was, 
however, readily convertible into dextrine and sugar by the 
same agents which produced this change in the starch of the 
vegetable kingdom. Indeed, boiling with acids and contact 
with diastase, saliva, pancreatic juice, blood, or any animal 
matter in a state of change, very readily effected its transfor- 
mation into glucose, when it gave all the characteristic re- 
actions of this substance. Dr. Pavy further stated, that by 
means of chemical agents and the microscope, the natural 
seat of this material could be shown to be in the interior of 
the hepatic cells. — Lancet , 
MANAGEMENT OE DAIRY CATTLE. 1851 to 1856. 
By T. Horsfall. 
( Continued from voL xxx, p. 703.) 
I have used malt combs, together with bran, half and half 
during the present season. Having a larger stock than the 
year before, with about an equal quantity of hay and less of 
roots, I reduced the allowance of the former from 12 lbs. to 
9 lbs., and that of mangel from 36 lbs. to 28 lbs. per day. 
1 gave also 1 lb. of rapecake additional to each, 6 lbs. in lieu 
of 5 lbs. On this fare, and with such changes of cows as 
W'ere called for, my yield of milk, of which a register is kept, 
ranged during the months of October, November, December, 
and January, at 160 to 164 quarts per day from 18 cows, 
being fully 9 quarts per day from each cow. Their improve- 
ment in condition will appear from the following table : 
Per 
Stall A. 
Weight. 
Weight. 
Week. 
1855. 
cwt. 
qr. 
lbs. 
1856. 
cvct 
qr. lbs. 
lbs. 
lbs. 
1. Oct. 9, 
10 
3 
0 
Jan. 29, 
11 
3 0 
Gain in 16 weeks 112 
7 
2. „ 
9 
3 
0 
9 
3 0 
yy 
yy 
y 7 
)} 
3. „ 
10 
1 
0 
PP 
11 
0 OC 
3) 
yy 
yy 
84 
H 
4. Dec. 3, 
10 
0 
0 
10 
0 12 
yy 
8 
yy 
12 
4 
5. Jan. 1, 
10 
0 
0 
yy 
10 
0 16C 
yy 
4 
yy 
16 
4 
6. Oct. 9, 
9 
0 
0 
9 
3 0 
yy 
16 
yy 
84 
H 
7. „ 
9 
2 
0 
9 
3 20C 
yy 
16 
yy 
48 
3 
