
New York AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION. 2711 
The above table shows that we have the full records of 22 
different animals for from one to four periods of lactation each, 
divided among the different heads as follows : 
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seoeeeetoeoscpuoeveeteea ee & > 
ue | ee | 38 [38 | 
as ay an. er, ue 
BB ame | see oases hoe 
NAME OF BREED. Seeths oa ~ga | 8 5 
Soa. (Se Or) 85 sp eres Mian 
g6©o | ‘sh | ee | gyn | B58 
pe 5.80 SAO = B-R=) Sas 
Zi Z, Zi Zi = 
American Memories or, BARRE oh ances Ot b bid) Set Lait ee, ven 2 4 
Ee ek oo eo sine] ws oe oe 1 1 2 13 
Mme SL ON ie 8 hele a 1 INNO Td EEG Met oc ate ake 5 
ITE chanics a opty e's vee os 2 DUS se ae [iat tee eh 6 
Holstein-Friesian .............. 3 Piet ao sere mle tes Ooo sae 4 
a CEES SR era Soe 3 2 1 12 
ATE Na Fhe. sos acecahipls oni {ino sinter é 1 


8. Prices oF DirrERENT Foops Ussp. 
The composition of the foods and of the various rations fed to 
the cows are fully given in the ninth and succeeding annual 
reports of this Station. In fixing prices for the food materials 
purchased, we have taken the actual market values at which they 
were purchased in 1889-1891, when they were first bought. The 
“prices were at that time, in several cases, above the average mar- 
ket value, but, in order that our data may be comparable from 
year to year, it is necessary that, throughout the investigation, 
we adhere to a fixed scale of prices. Any prices that might be | 
given must be local and temporary; and, if anyone desires to 
know the absolute cost of food, it can be readily calculated by 
comparing the prices given in the table below with those actually 
found at any particular time or place. The values assigned to 
the food materials produced on our farm are likewise variable for 
different localities, and we have fixed such values as seemed fair 
in our judgment. The values fixed for one ton of the different 
foods used in this investigation are as follows: 
A eee yrs sevattancnwer hos keitie $12 00 
NT el th octane s sage Hh eicgseeesi-Ddeee MHTGee = 12 00 
CLUES o) SEO SAE aCe RS ae Spe PSR eRe ae snr eee 3 00 
MI ES(CUT OC eo Biss cies. ws a ce eleiterl shee’ ag oto 3s 5 00 
