240 ' BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. [Jan., 



" It gives me pleasure to introduce to this great audience of 

 Massachusetts farmers and their wives the leading expert in 

 America upon the subject of live stock breeding, feeding and 

 management. This gentleman's name is already a household 

 word in New England although this is his first visit here. He 

 has this week addressed the New Hampshire State Board of 

 Agriculture at Lisbon, and tomorrow speaks before the Con- 

 necticut State Board of Agriculture. Brought up in Ontario, 

 Director of the Minnesota Experiment Station, and now live 

 stock editor of the New England Homestead, he is also identi- 

 fied with the Homestead's contest to add millions to the profits 

 of grain growers." 



The President. Ladies and Gentlemen, it gives me great 

 pleasure to introduce Professor Shaw, who will speak to us 

 this afternoon upon the subject of " Feeding Farm Animals." 



FEEDING FARM ANIMALS. 

 By Prof. Thomas Shaw, 



St. Anthony's Park, St. Paul, Minn. 



Mr. Chairman, and Ladies and Gentlemen : 



The introduction which your Chairman and the Secretary 

 of the State Board have been pleased to give me I must say 

 somewhat takes away my breath. If an introduction of that 

 kind had come after my talk rather than before it I would 

 probably feel a little more self-possessed than I do at present. 

 I do want to say this, however, before taking up the subject 

 that I shall more particularly talk upon ; I do want to say that 

 I do hope to be better known in New England in the future 

 than I have been in the past, and I do hope to be able to enroll 

 on the list of my friends a large number of the intelligent 

 farmers of this part of the great American Republic. 



I do not know that I have referred to that grain-growers' 

 contest, and had it not been for the reference made in that 

 document read by the Secretary, should probably have 

 passed it over, but I will say simply in passing that it is true 

 that I do have to look after that contest. I believe it is to be 

 the greatest contest that was ever established among the 



