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previously stated (page 88), it is a common practice here in New 
England to remove the seeds from pumpkins that are to be fed to 
milch cows, it is fair to admit that this has been done in our supposed 
case. It may be admitted furthermore, for the sake of the argument, 
that a medium-sized pumpkin, freed from its seeds and the stringy 
matter that surrounds the seeds, weighs not far from 12 lbs.; so 
that each of the pastured cows would finally get about 50 lbs. per 
day of pumpkin fodder. But since it appears, as the mean of the 
experiments given above, that 100 Ibs. of the flesh and rind contain ~ 
952 lbs. of flesh and 4} Ibs. of rind, each of the animals would get per 
day about 48 lbs, of pumpkin flesh, and not far from 2 lbs. of rind. 
Now from the analyses recorded on pages 83 and 84, it appears that 
there is contained, 
Lbs. of Dry organic Albumi- Carbohy- Cellulose. Fat. 
matter. noids. drates 
and fat. 
In 48 lbs. of pumpkin flesh .. . 2.80 0.39 1.94 0.48 0.06 
PMS e OL Pinder! te. We. < 0.25 0.06 0.12 0.07 0.01 
In the 50 Ibs. of flesh andrind . . 3.05 0.45 2.06 0.55 0.07 
It is an easy matter, of course, to determine the amounts of albu- 
minoids, and other constituents, that were given when the pumpkins 
began to be used, and at the several intermediate stages also, by dividing 
the above figures by four, or by whatever number may represent the 
quantity of pumpkins actually administered each day. 
It will be noticed that the proportion of rind in the pumpkin is 
small as compared with that of the flesh, and that, contrary to what I 
had supposed when writing the original paper, there is really no 
special need of paying much attention to the composition of the rind 
in inquiries like the foregoing; that is to say, the 50 lbs. of flesh 
and rind might have been called 50 lbs. of flesh, in the above compu- 
tation, without practical detriment to the accuracy of the result. It is 
probable, as was said before, that the constituents of the rind are less 
easily digestible than those of the flesh; and it is certain that most 
animals will eat the flesh rather than the rind, when circumstances 
permit them to make the choice. 
