2l6 AGRICULTURE OF MAINE. 



vital importance as the feeding proposition. To my mind it has 

 reduced itself to this : Raise everything you can on your own 

 farm for the cow, store it in the most palatable condition pos- 

 sible, and when you are feeding what you have raised on your 

 own farm purchase only that which is necessary to furnish the 

 cow with the amount of protein she shows that she requires by 

 the scales on which the milk is weighed. 



