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horse fifteen weeks on a ton of liay, with two quarts of corn and 

 cob meal per day, in good condition, provided he does no work. 

 Mr. Chandler takes a colt as soon as it is weaned, keeps it 

 until it is four years old for one hundred dollars. He takes a 

 heifer calf a day old and keeps it until it has its first calf, both 

 of which are then returned, and he gets thirty dollars. When 

 the heifer is returned at two years old, with its calf, he gets 

 good pay ; if he has to keep her another year, it is rather poor. 

 The barn is seventy feet by thirty. Temporary stalls are put 

 up to accommodate new boarders, and none are turned away. 

 The manure is shovelled into the barn cellar, where it is spread 

 about and two hogs work upon it. In the spring it is carted 

 out and mixed with an equal quantity of loam, laid in a mass 

 two and a half or three feet deep, worked over with a plough 

 twice, and, after haying, a part of it is spread upon his mowing, 

 twenty loads (five cords) to the acre, or if used for corn, as a 

 part of it is, it is at the rate of sixty loads to the acre. When 

 he plants corn he manures high, and lays down to grass the 

 next year, without manure ; his object being to raise hay. 



We had the pleasure of calling upon Col. Whitney, of Shirley, 

 who very politely showed us his stock of milch cows, fifteen in 

 number, and informed us about his " management." He feeds 

 six times a day, twice in the morning, twice at noon, and twice 

 at night, and gives oil meal once a day made into swill with 

 water. He lets his clover stand until well ripened, and feeds 

 it to his cows. He is getting at this time thirteen cans of milk 

 per day, from his fifteen cows, which he keeps in the stable all 

 the time in winter, only letting them out to water. 



Mr. Nathan Holden, of Shirley, has eight cows now in milk 

 which yield eight cans of milk per day. He feeds out, besides 

 hay, one quart of oil meal in swill, and one quart of corn and 

 cob meal per day to each cow. The barn is fifty-eight feet by 

 thirty-eight. His cows are grade Alderney, Durham and Na- 

 tive. Loam is drawn to the barn in the fall, and in the winter 

 is spread for litter in the cow stable, designing to have as much 

 loam as there may be of the droppings of the cattle. The whole 

 is shovelled into the cellar, which is capacious; when there is 

 much of a pile it is worked over and thrown back into a heap, 

 and carried to the field by sledding in the last of winter. 



