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up cold, and put cold water into it : and I abandoned the 

 practice. I cannot give any reason, only this, that my cattle 

 disliked it. All steam that is generated in a boiler has a 

 sulphuric acid taste to it. For instance, if you throw steam 

 into your boiling water to make tea, you cannot drink it : it 

 will taste like sulphur. Whether that was the reason why 

 my cattle did not like that steamed fodder, or not, I cannot 

 say ; but they did not like it. Then I cut up the fodder, 

 and used cold water, mixing it with shorts and meal, and I 

 have continued that ever since. The first year, my man did 

 not feed to suit me : the last two years, I have put a man into 

 my barn exclusively to take care of my cows ; that is, he 

 does no other work, unless he has an hour to spare. I have 

 about thirt}" head, and I venture to say that I have carried 

 those cows through twenty-five per cent cheaper than I could 

 if I had fed the fodder whole, and a great deal better. The 

 cows leave scarcely any of the pieces. I cut it from an inch 

 to two inches long. I give my milking cows two quarts of 

 meal and six quarts of shorts a day ; and to those that are 

 not in milk I only give the shorts. I don't think I find five 

 per cent of the stalks left when they get through. I give 

 them in the morning a large coal-shovel full, and the same at 

 night : at noon they only get a small feed of rowen. They 

 come out very well in the spring, and I think much better 

 than if fed on English hay in the old-fashioned way. My 

 man gives them two or three mouthfuls : they use that up, 

 and then he dashes the rest up to them, so that they clean 

 it all up. Not a spoonful is left of the rowen, and very little 

 of the corn-fodder. I think it is a great mistake to feed 

 fodder uncut. The doctor thinks it is no use to cut it. I 

 am perfectly satisfied, and those who have been with me and 

 those who have watched me are satisfied, that I carry my 

 cows through twenty-five per cent cheaper than those who 

 do not cut their fodder. 



Dr. Stuetevant. Do you mix your meal and shorts with 

 your corn-fodder? 



Mr. E.MERY. Yes, sir : I think it is economy to feed no 

 more than two quarts of meal and six quarts of shorts. I 

 think you get more milk, and your cows come through better. 

 Then another thing : my cows are kept warm. I don't 

 allow them to go outside to get water: they take their 



