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The Farm and Garden, Philadelphia, Pa 
The Farmer, Malone, N. Y. 
The Home Farm, Augusta, Me. 
The Husbandman, Elmira, N. Y. 
The Industrialist, Manhattan, Kan. 
The Jersey Bulletin, Indianapolis, Ind. 
The New England Homestead, Springtield, Mass. 
The Ohio Practical Farmer, Cleveiand, O. 
The Orange County Farmer, Port Jervis, IN oes 
The Phelps Citizen, Phelps, ATEN 
The World (weekly edition), New York, N. Y. 
The Southern Cultivator, Atlanta, Ga. 
HOW MUCH EXCREMENT IS PASSED DAILY BY COWS. 
The figures gained from our experiments of 1883 and 
1884 show that this amount is very variable. We indicate 
the conditions, and the amount in the table following. 
1883.—AVERAGE OF FOUR COWS. 
AY. Av. 
wt. of amt. of ex- 
Weight of ration: crement: 
cows: lbs. Ration. Ibs. Ibs. 
Jan. 5-7 ..709 Hay, meal, shorts an 9 HT 
Jan, 12-14 ..720 Hay, shorts 3.9 58.5 
Jan. 17-19 ..712 Hay, gluten meai s 0 43.4 
Jan. 23-25 ..705 Hay, meal 20.8 43.4 
Feb. 1- 3 ..678 Hay, meal, ensilage 33.9 29.6 
Feb. 9-11 ..705 Hay, ensilage OT, a 40.5 
Feb. 15-17 .. 685 Hay, meal, shorts 20.8 47.1 
1884.—AVERAGE OF TWO COWS. 
The excrement was. 
Dung: Urine: 
Ibs, Ibs. 
Jan. 21-24 ..72% Corn fodder, meal, shorts 34.6 51.1 39.7 11.4 
Feb. 4— 7 ..747 Ensilage, meal, shorts 78.0 47.1 33.8 13.3 
Feb. 16 ..725 Soja bean, meal, shorts 25.3 40.8 29.8 11.0 
Feb. 26-29 ..718 Hay, mc al, shorts 26.5 54.2 45.5 8.7 
Mar. 10-138 ..715 Hay, meal, shorts, potatoes 61.4 63° 42.5 20.8 
We observe that for cows of from 678 to 747 lbs. weight, 
under various kinds of food, the total excrement passed, 
varied from about 30 Ibs. to 68 lbs. daily. Under the like 
feed, hay, meal and shorts in about the customary propor- 
tion in good feeding, the excrement weighed 57, 47 and 54 
lbs.; under hay, grain and ensilage feeding the excrement 
voided figured up 30 lbs. and 47 Ibs. We obser ve, however, 
that there is an increase of excrement whenever shorts are 
fed. Thus selecting the periods when dry feed was used, 
in the six periods when shorts were used the excrement 
varied from 41 to 58 lbs. daily; when no_ shorts 
were used 43.4 lbs. in each of the two periods; in the one 
period when shorts alone were fed, the maximum amount 
of excrement was noted. 
