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youd that, within the space of fifteen minutes. That is, you 

 may feed an ox or a cow, fifteen minutes before you want to 

 slaughter the animal, on fine-ground grain, and you will find 

 it in the fourth stomach or beyond it. There is nothing in 

 the stomach to hold it, and, unless you mix it with other 

 food, so as to retain it, it passes off and but a very small 

 portion of it is digested. ■ 



There is another Avay, gentlemen, by which you may sup- 

 ply your cows during the summer with grass. Take an acre 

 of land convenient to your barn. If it requires under-drain- 

 ing, under-drain it ; make a thorough job of it ; if it requires 

 subsoiling, subsoil it. Prepare it so as to seed it down by 

 the last of August with orchard grass ; say at the rate of 

 three bushels to the acre. You may put in a little Timothy 

 seed if you desire ; you may put in a little of the small clo- 

 ver, if 3^ou want it, and, after the next season, you can get 

 four cuttings of about two feet each, if you have that land 

 rich when you seed it. You can get your first cutting before 

 May goes out ; you can get your second before June goes, 

 and if you want it to splice out your pasture food, use it ; if 

 not, cure it and lay it away for hay. You can get your third 

 cutting often by the time you would get your" sowed corn 

 ready to feed. Now, gentlemen, which is the best food, — 

 grass two feet high, to feed 3'our cows with when you need 

 it, or- corn that is not up ? AVhy, the grass ! 



Now let me dodge a little. No man will succeed in uny 

 business, Avhatever, unless he attends to the minutine of that 

 business, and attends to it at the right time and in the proper 

 manner. If you do not supply your cows with food at the 

 time when they require it, you will make a partial ftiilure in 

 spite of fate. Now remember my proposition ; you must 

 attend to all the minutiae of the business in which you are 

 engaged, at the right time and in the proper manner. The 

 right time to supply a cow with food, additional to that which 

 she obtains from her pasture, is when she wants it. You 

 must not allow that cow to shrink in her mess in midsummer, 

 or lose in her condition ; you must keep up her condition and 

 her flow of milk, and that 3'ou cannot do, gentlemen, with 

 sowed corn. Sowed corn will do but one of those things 



