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Mr. Gold. My experience in feeding apple-pomace is not 

 very extensive, but perhaps it will be well here to state that 

 of Mr. Dickerman, of Hamden. He has a powerful cider- 

 press, one of the modern style, in which he is not obliged to 

 use any straw. The pomace from his mill is thrown in a 

 large heap, and, pressed down by its own superincumbent 

 weight, it becomes ensilaged ; it comes into the condition of 

 preserved or dried fruit, and his horses and cattle eat it 

 greedily, and are in a thriving condition while consuming it. 

 Samples of it were taken to the experiment station and 

 were analyzed, and it was found that this apple-pomace, 

 taken in this partially dried and cured state, the next spring, 

 analyzed very favorably in comparison with many of our 

 other feeding stuffs. Mr. Dickerman has continued for sev- 

 eral years to feed it, and, as I have heard, with satisfactory 

 results. 



Question. If a thoroughbred cow is served by a scrub bull, 

 the resulting product is a grade. Does it affect the after 

 progeny of the cow ? 



Col. Warner. I have no doubt, in fact I know, from my 

 own experience in breeding, that if a thoroughbred cow, of 

 any particular breed, is served by a common scrub bull, the 

 effect of that can be distinctly traced in the progeny of that 

 cow for two or three generations. I have had it so in two 

 instances where the cow was a Jersey and the bull a common 

 bull of the country. I know it can be traced, especially in 

 the case of heifers with their first calf ; I don't think it can 

 be in cows after they get to middle or mature age, but I know 

 it can be with heifers. I have in my herd some heifers that 

 have been served by a grade Guernsey bull, and the next 

 service was by a Jersey, and the second calf was marked 

 quite strongly by the first bull ; I traced it very distinctly. 

 The peculiar marks of the first bull were noticed in the second 

 calves of these heifers. It is so in regard to dogs. If one 

 is served by a cur dog for three or four litters, that slut is 

 good for nothing. Breeders of dogs, I believe, understand 

 that pretty thoroughly. 



