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numbor of tons of them and pnt them into his barn. He fed those 

 oats in th(! winter with meal. Wlieu tlie oats were gone, lie fed them 

 good, early cut hay, increasing the meal a little ; and yet his four- 

 teen cows fell off" two pails of milk within a week after he left off 

 feeding these cured oats. Mr, Ellis doesn't like cotton seed meal. 

 He told me that if he got a bag of cotton seed meal and fed it to his 

 cows, unknown to his wife, she, in handling the cream and butter, 

 would want to know what the matter was with it, and would saj' that 

 it didn't work right ; and when the butter was sent to Boston to the 

 commission house, he would get word that it wasn't up to the 

 standard. He laid it to cotton seed meal. He feeds Indian 

 meal now wholly. He uses a Cooley creamerj'. 



In regard to feeding cows grain in the summer, I will say that I 

 had occasion to step into the cheese fijctory and looked over the 

 accounts of the daily receipts of milk. I found that Daniel True of 

 South Paris, who has been keeping dair}* cows this summer for the 

 lirst time, was sending about as much again milk as any other 

 customer. I inquired into the cause of it, and found that Mr. True 

 had fed his cows two quarts of shorts and one of cotton seed meal 

 all summer. At that time he was sending twice the number of 

 pounds of milk of any other man with the same number of cows, 

 and I don't know as his cows are any better than those owned by 

 liis neighbors. 



