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carefully, so that it did not heat or become musty. This he 

 gave to his cows, with potatoes and turnips, without meal or 

 shorts, and they gave more milk and came out better in the 

 spring than ever before. He kept 6 cows and averaged two 

 gallons of milk a day to each through the winter. He put 

 his poor hay mider the cows for bedding instead of giving it 

 to them to eat. The year before, with meal, shorts, &c., he 

 sold $200 worth of milk from 12 cows durino; the six colder 

 months, while the last year he sold $175 worth from 9 cows, 

 without any extra expense. He thought grass cut before it 

 is quite ripe, if properly cui^ed, worth more for cows than 

 that which is cut later. 



Mr. Z. Abbott, said some of the views presented by Dea. 

 Barrett, did not agree with those he had heretofore enter- 

 tained. He had always been of the opinion that hay cut af- 

 ter it began to ripen was better for cattle than that cut 

 earlier. He thought the success of Dea. Barrett's experi- 

 ment depended on his giving his cows clover hay. He thought 

 cows would do better to have some meal, but we might profit 

 by the experiment of Dea. Barrett and give them much less. 

 He thought farmers ought to feed out to the cattle more 

 roots — that potatoes and turnips were best to increase the 

 quantity of milk, and that carrots were the best for fatten- 

 ing. 



Dea. Barrett said he gave his cows as much as they would 

 cat — the corn fodder was not usually eaten up clean — the 

 butts he run through the cutter and mixed with the manure. 

 He did not mean to say it was not profitable to give cows 

 some meal, he only meant to give the result of his experi- 

 ment — that he got along without it, and his cows did better 

 than ever before. A good judge said his cows were worth 

 $8 each more this spring than last. 



Mr. W. Keyes said he cut his clover early and his cows 

 eat it better than usual, and give more milk. 



Mr. E. B. Barrett, of Mason, said he would admit that 

 clover cut green would cause cows to give more milk, but if 



