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eight months old ; five heifers, thirty-two months old ; seven 

 heifers, twenty-two months old ; four calves, nine months old ; 

 four calves, eight months old. These cattle weighed, live 

 weight, 14,567 pounds, and were fed five days on 277 pounds 

 of cut hay daily, and drank daily 887 pounds of water, dropped 

 daily 668 pounds solid manure, or 2.41 pounds of manure for 

 one pound of hay consumed. 



Second trial commenced December 16th, 1851. Fed same 

 cattle five days on 352 pounds hay daily, solid manure dropped 

 daily 860 pounds, or 2.44 pounds for one pound of hay con- 

 sumed ; drank daily 868 pounds water. 



February 28th, commenced feeding one cow, seventy-two 

 months old ; one do., ninety-six months old, and one forty-eight 

 months old; three heifers, thirty-two months old, and six 

 heifers twenty-two months old. The live weight of these cattle 

 w r as 9,472 pounds. They were fed five days on 240 pounds 

 cut hay daily ; solid manure dropped daily, 594 pounds, or 2.47 

 pounds of manure for one pound of hay consumed ; drank 

 daily 542 pounds water. 



Hay consumed in three trials, 869 pounds. 



Manure dropped in three trials, 2,122. 



The proportion of manure to hay is as 2.44 pounds of manure 

 to one pound of hay. The manure weighed fifty pounds the 

 cubic foot. 



Manure, after remaining under my barn one year, weighed 

 forty-four pounds the cubic foot, a loss of six pounds in one 

 year, or twelve per cent, of its weight when recently dropped. 



The farmers of Worcester County should call upon the 

 officers of their society to appoint given days, during the winter 

 months of the year, on which the members could come together 

 and talk over the principles which lie at the foundation of 

 success in agriculture. Such occasions would bring them into 

 closer fellowship than they have ever been. There should be 

 a triple bond among farmers — friendship, opinions and practice. 

 This method, if adopted, would aid in arriving in due time at 

 the hoped-for result. 



George M. Atwater. 



