19G MASSACHUSETTS AGRICULTURE. 



February 4. "We called upon Hon. Jabez Fisher, of Fitch- 

 bnrg ; he being absent, his stock and management were made 

 known to us by his intelligent overseer. His stock consists of 

 three cows, one yearling heifer, one calf, one cosset, one pair of 

 mules, and one horse. One of the cows is Native, with a trace 

 of Durham ; the rest are grade Durham and Ayrshire. He 

 feeds corn stalks or butts in the morning, and cuts no feed this 

 year, thinking that cutting does not pay. The second feeding 

 in the morning, at seven or eight o'clock, is with hay ; third 

 feeding, with hay, at noon; hay again at milking time, after- 

 wards corn fodder. He gives a cow a peck of carrots per day, 

 and no meal until about calving time ; then gives corn and cob 

 and bean meal, three bushels of ears of corn and one of beans 

 ground together, two quarts a day to a cow, in warm water. 

 Cows and hens eat bean meal readily ; horses, mules, and hogs 

 will not. His bean and pea straw is well saved and fed to cows, 

 and is readily eaten. The two mules take, besides hay, three 

 quarts corn and cob meal together per day, no more. He has 

 five hogs, one of them a Suffolk boar, and feeds them with swill 

 night and morning, and with ears of corn at noon. He also 

 keeps eighty hens, and gives them a pailful of bean, corn and 

 cob meal, and four quarts of corn daily. The barn cellar is 

 made water-tight, and receives the droppings from the stalls, 

 solid and liquid ; water is pumped in, and the manure is ap- 

 plied in a liquid state, carted out in a sort of cask with wheels 

 attached, and used by means of a flexible tube. 



We next called upon Mr. B. Safford, of Fitchburg. His 

 stock consists of three cows, two milch heifers coming three 

 years old, two heifers two years coming, not yet in milk, two 

 cossets, hens and turkeys. He feeds five times a day, viz.: 

 twice in the morning, once at noon, and twice at night; first in 

 the morning, with corn fodder; second, with hay; then corn 

 fodder at noon, and corn fodder first at night, and hay last. 

 He gives no grain in winter. He is now getting from two cows 

 one can of milk a day. His cows are let out during the fore- 

 noon in pleasant weather, when cold are kept in. His way of 

 curing his clover is to mow it in the morning after the dew 

 has dried off, let it lie in the swarth until three or four o'clock, 

 P. M., turns it, on the next day before noon pitches it into 

 cocks and puts on the caps ; after two or three days turns the 



