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fed roots very extensively, as I never had much success 

 in raising them, but I think they are good. We consider 

 that they make animals more healthy, but are not of equal 

 benefit for making butter. We always aim to keep our cattle 

 as warm as possible. The top of our barn is so arranged that 

 there is plenty of ventilation. I am glad of the plan offered 

 for feeding some straw. I had a Jersey cow that had nothing 

 but straw to within a few weeks of her coming in, and she 

 kept in good condition. As I said before, my cattle are fed 

 all they can eat at regular times. They are looking well, and 

 we are making about twenty-five pounds of butter a week, 

 from four cows. Of grain, I have fed meal and shorts in the 

 first part of the winter ; we have changed to meal and oats. 

 We have fed meal and cotton-seed meal some, a quart to a 

 cow. I am satisfied the cotton-seed meal is a very valuable 

 feed, and the increase of butter is sufficient to pay a farmer 

 for feeding it, and the manure is very much more valuable. 

 A man at our Dairyman's Association at Newport, in 1876, 

 said that when he fed cotton-seed meal it gave him in milk 

 enough more than its cost to pay fifty cents a day on eight 

 cows, and I am satisfied that he was correct. I never knew 

 any bad results from feeding it. We always commence our 

 winter feed by the first of November. I do not believe in 

 feeding for one thing and expecting another. The best plan 

 is to feed a butter making cow such material as will enable 

 the cow to make butter. 



Mr. Burleigh. I think we ought to wait until cows reach 

 maturity before giving them much rich food. 



Mr. Harris. My experience has been that it is not a good 

 practice, and hardly safe, for me to feed my young cows 

 largely of this highly concentrated food. I would like to ask 

 Dr. North's mode of treating his young cows at the time of 

 their calving, and when they begin to give milk. 



Dr. North. For the first twenty-four hours I feed a small 

 quantity of hay, giving them warm water with shorts for 

 a drink. On the succeeding days I increase their food as I 



