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Sept. 29. The grains very mouldy and give off a disagreeable 
~ odor. 
Sept. 30. The grains alive with maggots in the upper portion ; 
apparently too hot below for the maggots to exist. | 
Oct. 2. The grains sour and maggoty. 
Oct. 8 The grains more offensive and sour in odor than eyer. 
Oct. 6. The grains fed to-day were in somewhat sweeter condition 
than those fed for the past two days, owing to their being dug from 
down into the box, below the maggots and dry state. They were 
somewhat acid, rather than sour or mouldy. 
Oct. 8. The grains are sour a short distance below the exposed 
portion, but are otherwise clean and much relished by the cows. 
That portion exposed to the atmosphere is blackish, dry and mag- 
goty. 
~ Oct. 11. Started in upon a new lot of grains. The grains on the 
surface very rotten, black and disagreeable, but three inches down 
were in white condition. The black and the white were fed mixed. 
Meg does not relish them: Jem does. 
Oct. 15. The grains very offensive in odor, caused by a decayed 
maggoty portion from the surface, that was as usual mixed with the 
rest. 
Oct. 16. The grains very offensive to-day. 
Oct. 20. The grains have an odor resembling sauerkraut, very 
strong. 
Oct. 26. The grains no worse in quality than heretofore. 
Nov. 1. The grains are offensive in odor when lony exposed, as 
on top of. barrel. 
Noy. 2. The grains more offensive to-day than at any time since 
feeding, being putrid in places. 
Noy. 3. Grains as yesterday. : 
-We were unable, as it seems, to keep up a continuous grains feed- 
ing, without the addition of hay. The idea, however, was kept 
predominant, of feeding as little hay as possible. Hence the grains 
were fed in such quantities as the cows would consume, and after 
the grains were eaten hay was fed in like manner. The first effect 
of this system was to produce a satiety in the animals, from which 
_ they finally recovered, and at last became habituated to quite a 
regularity in the quantity both of the grains and hay hich were 
consumed. Nine days of hay feeding, as will be observed, preceded 
and followed the experiment proper, that of the grains, whereby we 
have opportunity for measuring changes which intervened. 
The cows selected had been at pasture during the summer, with- 
out grain, and were removed froin the pasture at once to the experi- 
mental barn. | 
Jem is about four years old, and had a calf October 24, 1882, and 
December 20, 1883, was bred March 31 and May 8, and is hence due 
to calve January 5 or February 11,1885. She arrived at the station 
November 30, 1882, and went dry November 24, after yielding 4460 
pounds of milk. With her next calf, December 20, 1883, she gave up 
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