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Mr. Weston. I am just commencing farming- and have perhaps 

 as good an opportunity for raising stock as any one. I should 

 like to learn upon what basis we should feed stock. Ou ■ friend 

 Percival has fed Shorthorns a long time and can tell us about 

 them. Suppose we take as a basis good English hay, shall we 

 feed better than that or not? and if so, how much better? Shall 

 we commence when they are young to feed meal, and as they 

 advauce in years feed more meal ? Or do we need to feed as 

 much meal when they are a year old as when they are three years 

 old ? There is a farmer in Anson who has pair of two years old 

 Herefords, and I understand he has spoiled them by over feeding. 

 Where is the point of danger, and what amount of provender is 

 most profitable ? 



Mr. Percival. Our young friend is asking a great deal.. The 

 knowledge which he seeks is valuable, it has cost me fifteen 

 years to attain it, but if he will come to my place I will sit down 

 and give him all I knowv, but it would require too much time, and 

 weary your patience to do it here and now. 



Mr. Coburn. If a calf has milk enough until he is six or eight 

 months old to keep him growing, not too fat, but thriftily, until 

 that time and then you take the milk away gradually and feed a 

 little provender with good, early cut hay, oats, meal. or something 

 of the kind for the next six months, he may then be put on to 

 good hay. You must treat him differently from what a certain 

 woman did her boarders, who made a good thing of it. One 

 of her neighbors undertook to run a boarding house and lost. He 

 inquired how she succeeded in making money when he lost. She 

 said, "You have not learned the secret. I find out what they 

 don't like and give them plenty of it." In feeding stock we 

 should find out what they do like and give them plenty of it. All 

 stock like good, early cut, sweet hay. lam perfectly satisfied 

 from observation and experience, that a calf after it is a year old 

 will get all the growth that is necessary on good, early cut hay, 

 without any provender, and make a better animal, a better milker 

 and hold out longer. It will do if you want an enormous animal, 

 a great amount of fat and muscle, but I don't believe that it is 

 so good for the animal as to be reared on its natural food. I 

 have had some experience with cow.- fur thirty years past, and as 

 Friend Taylor said, in selecting I formerly picked for a deep bag 

 with large udders, but I have learned that was a mistake. I want 

 the bag to cover a large surface, and the teats far apart, and such 



