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Mr. Hart. I believe tlie proof of the practice is in the re- 

 sult. We formerly raised our calves as Mr. Bill lias proposed, 

 giving them all the milk they would drink, and we never failed 

 to lose a large percentage by what we call murrain before they 

 were a year old. I have never lost one that was raised upon 

 oil meal and these other substances, and I have raised a great 

 many more in that way than I have upon milk. 



Mr. Weed of Danbury. I would like to inquire of Mr. 

 Hart what he does to counteract the scours in calves when he 

 feeds oil meal ? I have fed it with skim milk, and that has 

 been my trouble. 



Mr. Hart. If you will use in connection with it ground 

 oats, I do not think you will have any difficulty in that respect. 



Mr. Gold. If the trouble with your calves from scouring 

 is from contagious diarrhoea tliat has got into your calf pens 

 or your stables, you have got something more to do than 

 merely withhold the oil meal. 



Mr. Bill. I will say to this meeting tliat I have raised 

 from ten to thirty calves a year. I have tried every way to 

 raise those calves and raise them cheap, I say to you here, 

 that I had never had any success in raising good calves except 

 by letting them draw their own milk. I liave drawn that milk, 

 or caused it to be drawn, and fed to the calves, and somehow 

 the milk did not appear to do the calves that amount of good, 

 they did not grow as well, as when they took it naturally frorn 

 the cow. I have fed them in every way to try to raise them 

 cheap, and it has only had the effect to put those calves back 

 in their growth. When I have let my calves draw the usual 

 amount of milk, I never have had one that had the scours, I 

 never had one that did not thrive ; but whenever I have tried 

 to raise them in any other way, I have had more or less trouble. 



Question. Will Mr. Gold inform us what fertilizers lie 

 used in raising his large pumpkin ? 



Mr. Gold. Well, sir, my faith is in barn yard manure, • 

 that was all that was used. 



M. Sedgwick. In this connection, I would like to have Mr. 

 Gold tell this audience where he gets his pumpkin seed. He 



