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to continue a series of milk analyses during these trials. 
The analyses of the foods used are as below : 
Water. Album. Crude WNit.-free | Fat. Ash. 
; fiber. extract 
TIGY gabe eios Gate gee 16.04 4.83 26.28 46.88 2.18 3.79 
(orn mealies. 12.88 9.90 2.81 68.87 4.16 1.38 
Barnipse A SHIM. 92.40 1.25 1.20 4.20 28 72 
Cotton seed mea.... 8.45 41.88 3.45 20.94 16.87 8.41 
Bala, topes seep a 86.25 .93 4.79 6.42 67 .94 
The experiment commenced Nov. 9, 1885, and continued 
to April 17, 1886, inclusive, 160 days. Thecattle were kept 
in the experimental barn during this whole period, receiv- 
ing no exercise, and in general preserved good health. An 
éxamination of the daily records given below show a slight 
disturbance at period of calving, but it may be said that 
rarely do cows pass through a winter in better health than 
these animals kept under rigid conditions. The grain was 
fed in all cases in a weighed quantity ; the other food was 
weighed and given freely, and the refuse food weighed 
back, so that the feeding was ad libitum. 
The daily figures, the average figures for thirds of each 
period, and those for the whole of each period are given in 
full in the following tables, the starred figures indicating 
that? cow calved on.the date named, or the period indi- 
cated : 
