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not aware that I had spoken so long, and I am afraid I have 

 run into that other class of men of whom I spoke. 



Mr. Root.. I know from obsei-vation that the Doctor has 

 a splendid herd of cattle, and I think it would be interesting 

 if he would state his method of feeding. 



Dr. Wakefield. I believe with Mr. Lewis here, that the 

 very best thing for cows is grass, and when you cannot.have 

 gi'een grass, I think dried grass is far better than hay. We 

 cut on our fjinn this year, about a hundred and eighty-seven 

 tons of grass, reckoning about fifteen tOns of Hungarian gi'ass, 

 and it is almost all good grass. We had not pasture enough 

 to carry those cows, and I fed them every day from the barn 

 one foddering of good hay, with perhaps two quarts of mid- 

 dlings. This is what they have in the summer. The grass 

 in our pastm-es does not get very high, we have to pasture 

 them so close, and I thought they must have something else, 

 because my experience has been that you can never make a 

 cow give a large quantity of milk, if you do not give her 

 enough to eat. If you would have a full flow of milk, your 

 cows must have full feed, so I have fed them every day, as I 

 have said. I calculate to cut my hay so as to get it as soon 

 as I can after it has blossomed. We begin before it has all 

 blossomed, because we have to, and if we have such seasons 

 as we had this year, we cannot get through until after some 

 of it is a little turned, but we did very well. I think I never 

 got my hay in better than I have this year, but it has cost a 

 great deal of labor. We had to get the hay into the bam, 

 and when the sun came through the clouds, we would hold it 

 out on pitchforks. That is about the way we did it ; but it 

 has turned out pretty good hay. I calculate to raise roots 

 enough to give every cow that is giving milk through the win- 

 ter a fodder of roots every day, from the time she comes into 

 the barn until she goes to the pasture. She does not always 

 get, as my friend here says, a peck, but she always has some ; 

 but we give them the best hay we can, and give them all they 

 will eat. We have to feed them more than twice a day, 

 because we have not come up to the Barre standard of 

 feeding twice a day. I have seen Mr. Ellsworth's herd 

 after they had been fed, and they were standing there with 

 a great deal of composure. I have no doubt if they had 



