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there was a scarcity of hay, to resort to the feeding of grain 

 of some sort, in order to get their stock through the winter. 

 It was a sad state of things for the fanner to be thus short, 

 and to be obliged to feed out his corn, if he liad it, and if 

 not to be at the expense of buying it ; but, after going 

 through a few such trials, it was found that cows came out 

 better in the spring, and were really the better for the scar- 

 city of hay, and the grain they had received in conse- 

 quence. 



By feeding meal from necessity, farmers began to learn 

 that it would pay to feed it to cows, working oxen and 

 horses, in the spring. Their oxen would perform twice the 

 labor with grain, keep in much better flesh, and in a more 

 healthy condition. It used to take nearly all summer to 

 fatten oxen, after they had done a hard spring's work with- 

 out meal. Horses were only fed grain when tliey were to 

 perform some hard day's work, or be driven gn a long jour- 

 ney. How diflPerent now ! No one pretends to keep a horse 

 without feeding it daily with grain. Most people say 

 they can keep a horse with about the same cost, to give 

 it considerable grain, that they can on hay alone, and 

 that it will perform much more labor ; yet these same 

 farmers, who feed grain to their horses, and make beef of 

 their oxen, on meal, at the low price of beef at the present 

 day, are in doubt about its paying to feed meal to dairy 

 stock. In our own case, after twenty-five years' experience, 

 we are quite sure we realize much more from meal fed to 

 dairy stock, than when fed to any other. It is much easier 

 to produce one hundred pounds of butter, tlian to grow 

 four hundred pounds of beef or pork. In the latter case it 



