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Milk Analysis. — Meg. -- ( Continued.) 

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DATE. 3 =| A bp = 
S 5 Ra < 
vie CM te I SS a ee Pe 86.11 | 4.02 | 3.80 
CALS a aul Meets PgR ORe ihe ete al An oe See to fs Or sorte ection 
CEA SRDS Beat RRS Oe Pie a ee a ee S02 8045 2023 4 Sis. 
ME Is Goo cs no he, aida ick os Sto se ceidleial ee So 7pse 4. 800s, wc 
WERMIOVE Cl yok or os Bo 6. F< "40 a: oda tcle’b wie oad v's SOME Gn Mo Me Para 
DN MRRRMERE es Ec in oy re a cet aie co's o.ee'e. 86.06 | 4.20] .... 
ME MPR rare are oo din sche wis ee oie oc eta v0 86.41 | 3.69 | 4.05 
on. Bes OCR eit os eee ae 86.05 | 4.07 | 4.11 
LN an a 86.07 | 4.32 | 3.80 
We were unable to obtain full data for the whole period, on ac- 
count of the labor involved, so we were forced to select a few days 
from each period for a more complete record, and these days were 
taken toward the close of each period so as to embrace a time when 
the cows might be expected to have come under the full influence 
of the food consumed by them. Period III was necessarily short, 
as we had but a limited supply of the Soja bean forage; the other 
periods were, in our judgment, sufficiently long for our purpose. 
The scheme of our trial was to feed the same quantity of grain 
each day, so as to be certain to maintain the animals in condition, ~ 
and to this fixed quantity to add the various materials whose feed- 
ing value we were desirous of obtaining. 
The fixed ration in all the periods was four pounds of corn meal 
* and four pounds of wheat bran daily per cow. During Period I, 
air-dried fodder corn was added in such quantity as the cows would 
consume; in Period II, the same fodder-corn ensilaged ; in Period 
III, the Soja bean plant in a dry condition; in Period LV, the ordi- 
_ nary hay of the farm, largely timothy; in Period V, potatoes and a 
small quantity of hay. 
The first question that meets us is the change of live weights in 
the cows-under trial, and for this purpose we present a table which, 
by various calculations, seems to show that the weights remained 
tolerably constant, although when examined in detail we observe 
slight falling off in some of the periods, and a gain in others. 
Average daily weight of the two cows in pounds per cow: 



Periods. 
FE IL Ill. Vi, Vi 
For whole period..... Saree) FO 741 718 721 730 
Sibor direst tour days. .<.2.s.. 748 731 713 724. 740 
Fer last four days ......... 728 744 722 718 715 
Riobmrse alts Ar. oe) ode ce - 442 736 713 723 736 
Horvsecond half... °s. 2. ds <. 726 746 792, 719 724 
