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nor appear any more contented, than they do when they are 

 fed upon corn-fodder; and, with the exception of a very 

 moderate foddering of dry hay at noon, that is all they will 

 have during the three or four coming months. Although I 

 put corn-fodder, in the estimate I make, at ten dollars a ton, 

 I sell a ton of good hay for every ton of corn-fodder that 

 my cattle eat ; and the quantity of milk that will produce 

 from the best cows is as much as I think a cow ought to 

 give. My best cow last year gave ninety-six hundred 

 pounds of milk. Five cows averaged seventy-eight hundred 

 pounds apiece, including the one that gave ninety-six hun- 

 dred pounds. 



Mr. Williams. As I live in a different locality from 

 Gov. Boutwell, I would like to ask him what hay is worth 

 when he reckons corn-fodder at ten dollars per ton. 



Gov. Boutwell. I am selling hay at the barn now at 

 twenty dollars a ton. Last spring I did not get quite so 

 much. 



Mr. Williams. You estimate your corn-fodder at one- 

 half the value of hay ? 



Gov. Boutwell. That is what I estimate it at ; but, as a 

 matter of fact, I shall sell this year a ton of good hay for 

 every ton of corn-fodder that my cattle eat. 



Dr. Wakefield. I should like to ask what kind of 

 corn Gov. Boutwell plants. 



Gov. Boutwell. I am one of the favored few. Dr. 

 Sturtevant gave me some of his corn three years ago, and I 

 have been planting it since. 



[Capt. MooEE in the chair.] 



Mr. Emery (of Lowell). When I was up before, speak- 

 ing of smutty corn, I did not say all I wanted to. As to 

 the matter of corn-fodder. Dr. Sturtevant has said that he 

 considers that less than ten per cent is stalks. I cannot say 

 but what he is right ; but it does not look so to me. I have 

 been for the past three years feeding my cows upon corn- 

 fodder and rowen, nothing else. Three years ago I cut 

 my corn-fodder up, put it in casks of sixty gallons, trod it 

 down solid, and carried it a mile and a quanter, where it was 

 steamed in the casks; and then I carried it back to my farm, 

 and fed it. I found my cattle did not like it. They would 

 not eat it readily ; they would not eat it as well as if I cut it 



