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The food was brewers’ grains, kept predominant, and, after being 
sated with the grains, which were in a stale and putrefactive condi- 
tion, hay was fed in such quantities as would be eaten. During the 
seven days 20.2 pounds of hay and sixty-eight pounds of brewers’ 
grains were consumed, and 236.8 pounds of water drunk, an average 
per day 2.9 pounds hay, 9.7 pounds of grains, and 33.8 pounds of 
water, the average daily product in milk 7.5 pounds, the loss in live- 
weight seventy-five pounds. 
But few analyses of the milk were made previously to this starva- 
tion period. On September 26th the morning’s milk yielded 6.64 
per cent of fat,and on September 29th 4.52 per cent. The next 
analyses of morning’s milk commenced October 1st with 4.438 per 
cent and continued 6.77, 5.538, 6.82, no analyses and 10.95 per cent. 
The average of forty-eight analyses, under various circumstances, 
September 17th-November 18th, morning’s and evening’s milk 
5.20 per cent. But one analyses of the evening’s milk made prior to 
the starvation period — this one, September 25th, giving 4.78 per 
cent. During the starvation period but two analysis were made, one 
on September 30th of 4.38 per cent, the other the phenomenal milk 
of October 6th, 12.53 per cent of fat. But on three days outside 
October 6th was the fat determined in both morning’s and evening’s 
milk, and in each case the evening’s milk was the richest in fat, the 
average for the morning’s milk being 5.30 per cent, and for the eve- 
ning’s milk 5.63 per cent. 
We have thirty-four fat analyses of Meg’s morning milk from 
September 26th to November 12th, exclusive of the starvation period, 
September 30th to October 6th. Arranging the figures of the star- 
vation period in order of magnitude, we can average the thirty-four 
analyses in numbers of greater or less, as below: 
Fat in morning’s milk. Of thirty-four other analyses. 
Starvation period. 
4.43 Eleven under 4.43 
5.53 | Twenty-eight under 5.53 
6.32 Thirty-two under 6.32 
6.77 Thirty-three under 6.77 
10.95 Thirty-four under 10.95 
The conclusion is hence undeniable that the milk was richer dur- 
ing the starvation period than at other times. 
Under these circumstances it may be suggested plausibly that the 
fat in the milk was being formed from the stored fat of the body, 
rather than from the food, and, indeed, this becomes certain when 
we examine other evidence and find a greater excretion of fat in the 
milk than the consumed food was capable of supplying. 
In our first report we gave an analysis of the mixed milk of three 
cows just landed from a railroad journey of two days, in which the 
fat was 10.50 per cent, and which we classed as phenomenal milk 
from fatigued and harassed cows. In view of this year’s results, 
with Meg under starvation diet, we may believe that it was rather 
