BESSIE GENEVA 2d.-TABLES IX AND X. 
Bessie Geneva 2d dropped her fourth calf April g, 1902, 
when she was live years and eight months of age. As soon 
as her milk was good to use she was put on the experiment, 
which was in time to give her two weeks each on beets and 
pulp. T his was the second year that she had been milked. 
Previous to that time her calves had been allowed to take 
the milk. 
Sugar beets had been a part of the ration fed to Bessie 
Geneva 2d during the winter months of 1901-02. 
FIVE COWS IN TABLES XI AND XII. 
The five cows reported in these tables were scrub cows 
purchased to furnish milk to the College dairy. They had 
calved from two weeks to two months previous to the time 
they were brought to the College farm. None of them had 
been given grain or had received anything but pasture grass. 
When we obtained possession of them they were weighed up 
and put upon the experiment at once and given the same 
ration of grain, alfalfa, sugar beets and pulp as were the 
other cows. These cows are not considered in the results 
because they were not on the experiment long enough to 
give an intelligent idea of the effect of the beets and pulp. 
It will be noticed in Table XII that four cows made a 
total loss, during the two weeks that they were fed pulp, of 
255 pounds. This is probably explained by the fact that a 
little more than one week before this time, these cows came 
directly off of pasture and were put on a grain ration. It 
would be natural then for them to fill up for some time and 
apparently gain flesh during the first week on sugar beets, and 
then apparently lose weight rapidly during the two following 
weeks. For this reason the results of these cows are not 
used in computing the comparative cost and profits. 
The results for the first five cows which were on feed long 
enough to make the comparison of sugar beets and pulp of 
some value, show that the two foods gave almost identical 
returns. The pulp ration gave slightly better returns when 
fed to Dainty Noble and Young Grannie. Bessie Geneva 2d 
gave more milk but not quite so much butter per week when 
on pulp, and also lost most flesh. The beets apparently gave 
better returns with Gildana and Mountain Beauty. The 
per cent fat in the milk varies so much that it is difficult to 
draw definite conclusions in regard to which ration produced 
the richest milk. Our averages show a little more milk from 
the pulp ration and a little higher fat content in milk from 
the beet ration. 
