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and at the same time going up on the other. Frequently, 

 after we introduced this method of ventiLation, visitors, 

 coming to see the barn, would exclaim, "How pure your 

 cellars are ! How do you manage to keep the air so good ? 

 Your cattle seem to be healthy and well." We would answer, 

 "Look at our mode of ventilation." After examining, some 

 would say, "I can fix one of those tubes in my barn. They 

 are easily enough built." It is a fact which I may mention 

 here, that any young man taking a college course at the State 

 College, no matter how little he may care for farming mat- 

 ters, will get some hints that are profitable to him during his 

 whole life. I thought I would present this idea, hoping if 

 any of you are troubled by poor ventilation, you w^ill adopt 

 this plan. I say next after w^armth let us have ventilation, 

 and some system after the pattern I have suggested is much 

 better than open doors and windows, because there is never 

 a current of cold air striking your cattle, and you can keep 

 the temperature just where you want it. About feeding, we 

 don't feed scalded meal. We don't think it is any better. 

 We have tried the experiment of feeding swine on raw and 

 cooked meal, and continued it for eight years, and in every 

 case the pigs have done better on raw than on cooked meal. 

 About feeding turnips to cows, I don't know of a case w^here 

 they have afiected the taste of the milk, unless the tops were 

 eaten. 



Dr. Lincoln. In Washington County, we feed much of our 

 straw to our sheep, oat and barley straw mostly. I find they 

 do well on it. I also feed much fish pomace. I think it is 

 better than most kinds of hay. It is good for young stock 

 also. We have tried it thoroughly. We have turned it in 

 the stalls of some cattle and they would keep in good condi- 

 tion. I think some young cattle wdiich I have known have 

 kept as fat on that as on English hay and grain. Those who 

 have had considerable experience in the matter tell me, and 

 my own experience has been the same, that it is as good as 

 corn, pound for pound. It also makes good manure. In a 

 flock of sheep I had last spring, every one w^as good mutton. 



