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one of swale lia y, — and I have instructed my men to clean 

 out the stalls daily, and save what they find in the stalls to 

 cover my strawberries. I have not yet accumulated enough 

 to think it worth while to spend the time to load it. I will 

 not attempt to tell you how many pounds I have collected ; 

 but it is a very small heap. 



I make milk for the Boston market. I know about how 

 much milk I get every day. I strain my milk into cans. I 

 have experimented with feeding corn-fodder and English 

 hay, feeding corn-fodder one week, and changing it to the 

 very sweetest of English hay the next week, and I have been 

 surprised to fi.nd that I could see scarcely any difference ; 

 and oftentimes, when I have made the change, there has 

 been no difference in the quantity of milk that I have 

 received from my cows. Now, I would like to know if any 

 gentleman present has experimented in that way with milch 

 cows, feeding dry fodder whole, and then changing those 

 cows on to the same quantity of corn-fodder wet, and to the 

 same quantity of corn-fodder that has been cut and steamed. 

 If there is any gentleman present who can give me that 

 information, and say that the advantage in favor of cutting 

 and steaming has been so great, that I can afford to hire men, 

 and pay them the wages that I have to pay, and buy the 

 necessary cutting and steaming apparatus, I want to go in 

 for it. But, sir, I never could satisfy myself, that by 

 chopping up my corn-fodder myself, instead of letting my 

 cattle do it, who have plenty of leisure and strength, I should 

 get enough benefit to pay me. I may be mistaken. I came 

 to this meeting to learn. Now, if there is any gentleman 

 here who has ever tried the experiment of changing from 

 M'hole corn-fodder to cut corn-fodder, as I have described my 

 process of changing from corn-fodder to English hay, and 

 has found results that will warrant the outlay, I would like 

 to have him state his experience. 



JNIr. Hadwen (of Worcester). Perhaps it is unnecessary 

 for me to say that I am in favor of raising corn, and raising 

 corn in Massachusetts. I believe it is for the interest of 

 farmers to raise corn largely ; and I think corn can be grown 

 at as good profit as any other crop that is consumed by the 

 farmer, where the conditions are favorable. But, in order 

 to grow corn at a low price, you must have higli cultivation : 



