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140 pounds salt liay, fifty cents per hundred, 70c. Total, $8.23. 

 Quantity of milk for the two weeks, 499 quarts. 



Cost of feeding three cows two weeks on Indian meal, $3.15 ; 

 584 pounds English hay, seventy-five cents per hundred, $4.38 ; 

 140 pounds salt hay, fifty cents per hundred, 70c. Total, $8.23. 

 Quantity of milk for the two weeks, 513| quarts. 



Cost of feeding three cows two weeks on rye meal, $3.15 ; 700 

 pounds English hay, seventy-five cents per hundred, $5.25 ; 140 

 pounds salt hay, fifty cents per hundred, 70c. Total, $9.10. 

 Quantity of milk for the two weeks, 484 quarts. 



It will be seen from the above experiment, that Indian meal 

 possesses the highest value for producing milk ; difiering, how- 

 ever, but little from oil meal. 



Many farmers object to the free use of grain of any kind, 

 believing such food to be too stimulating. But my experience 

 is otherwise. I have twelve cows which for the last five years 

 have dropped their calves in the fall of the year, and have been 

 fed during the winter and spring, till they went to pasture, with 

 as much meal or shorts as were used in the above trials, and 

 were uniformly in as good health and better condition than a 

 like number that dropped their calves in the spring, and had no 

 grain of any kind during the year. 



It should have been stated above, that my cows arc kept in 

 a tight barn, sufificiently ventilated during the days and nights, 

 except when they are turned out to water about nine o'clock, 

 A. M., and four o'clock, P. M., when they remain out about 

 twenty minutes each time. 



William F. Porter, Chairman. 



The following interesting remarks, on feeding stock, by the 

 Hon. Peter Lawson, of Dracut, as cliairman of the committee 

 on bulls, (Middlesex,) will be found of great practical value : — 



The committee have, in former reports, given their opinion 

 in regard to the proper system of breeding. They would now 

 take the liberty to make a few remarks on the system of feed- 

 ing and treatment, for if the latter is not properly attended to, 

 the former will fail to " satisfy expectation." Obvious as this 

 doctrine must be to every intelligent mind, yet, judging from 



