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bushel, amounting to seventy-eight dollars and ninety-six cents. 

 In November following I bought four tons of shorts in Boston, 

 at nineteen dollars per ton; freight to Bradford one dollar and 

 forty-five cents per ton, making eighty-one dollars and eighty 

 cents, or two dollars and eighty-six cents more than the onions 

 brought. I then had four tons, or about four hundred bushels 

 of shorts, costing but two dollars and eighty-six cents more 

 than the one liundred and fifty-six bushels of carrots. I think 

 the labor was no more to raise the onions than the carrots, 

 and the labor less to feed the cows with shorts than with car- 

 rots. 



December 1st, 1851, I commenced giving my cows from four 

 to eight quarts of shorts each per day, and continued through 

 the winter, except eight days in February I left off feeding four 

 cows with shorts that had been having eight quarts per day, 

 and measured the milk the first four days. I found they 

 decreased, on an average, three pints each per day. The next 

 four days I fed them with about an equal quantity of rowen 

 and coarse hay, which increased the milk full up to the quantity 

 when fed with shorts. 



The next experiment I commenced December 25th, 1852, by 

 selecting three of my best cows, as nearly equal in size, condi- 

 tion and goodness, as I could. No. 1, eight years old, dropped 

 her calf November 25th ; No. 2, nine years old, dropped her 

 calf November 25th; No. 3, eight years old, dropped her calf 

 December, 2d. 



I continued the experiment eight weeks, giving to each cow 

 the same money's worth of the different kinds of feed, by 

 weight, as the same cost at the time, viz. : shorts, twenty-six 

 dollars per ton ; oil meal, thirty dollars per ton ; Indian meal, 

 eighty cents per bushel of fifty pounds ; rye meal, one dollar 

 per bushel of fifty pounds ; giving to each cow fifty-two and a 

 half cents' worth per week, seven and one-half cents' worth per 

 day. 



The first week forty-two pounds of shorts were weighed for 

 each cow, and fed night and morning, being about four and one- 

 half quarts each time, wet with six quarts of water two hours 

 before feeding. No. 1 gave, in the seven days, 82^ quarts, beer 

 measure ; No. 2, 78^ ; No. 3, 79. Total, 239| quarts. 



