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been giving two quarts, to a peck of shorts. I have been in 

 the habit of giving grain the year round. I feed hay three 

 times a day, and only three, but my cows have all they will 

 eat. NoAv I wish to ask whether I am feeding too much hay.. 

 I am feeding nearly thirty pounds per day. I try to keep 

 my stock vvarm, and have good ventilation. 



Mr. Faeeington. If I was in my neighbor's condition, I' 

 would do this : I would note carefully for a week, at leasts 

 the amount of milk I got from my cows. The next week I 

 would reduce the amount of hay I was feeding them and 

 watch the effect. The next week I would reduce still more, 

 until I had brought it down to the lowest point, and bear the 

 result in mind. I would answer that question from my own 

 experience, and I don't know how a true answer can be 

 obtained except in that way. We regard a water-tight tank 

 of high importance in saving manure. 



Dr. Lincoln. The barn on my fjirm is fifty feet square, 

 the eaves overhanging considerable. The floor is concave, 

 and the bottom of my tank is made of blue clay. We haul 

 in muck and make a heap upon the floor, and in hauling it 

 out in March we thoroughly mix it with liquid manure. This 

 tank was cemented twenty-five or thirty years ago, and it is 

 perfectly solid as yet. 



Mr. Burleigh. This is a subject that interests me. I used : 

 to be in the milk business to a considerable extent. One 

 winter I kept thirty milch cows. As regards feeding, I will 

 give you my views : I always feed more or less bran or meal. 

 I use considerable oat-meal. I give cows a little of some kind 

 of grain every dny. The first thing in the morning is to get 

 this provender, and after that the hay is given. We feed 

 them with hay three times a day. Speaking of straw, I 

 remember the remark of an old man who Avas a prominent 

 cattle raiser in Somerset county. He said his cattle were 

 always fed well, and he kept them on straw, Init they were 

 not fed with it. I tliink we might raise good cattle on straw, 

 but in my estimation it is better to feed them on good early 

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