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were feeding them myself, I should give them cotton-seed 

 meal and other grains, and some straw. I should not think 

 of feeding a horse on hay alone. 



Question. Do corn-stalks cured in the ordinary manner 

 (by stacking out in the field) lose much of their value ? 



Mr. Sanboen. I do not think they suffer any serious loss, 

 I do not think I have met with any loss this year to be men- 

 tioned. 



Question. How would you feed dry cows and young 

 stock ? 



Mr. Sanborn. I should feed young stock, as I said, on 

 the coarse fodders and cotton-seed and corn-meal mixed. If 

 I had to buy all my grain, I should feed the common animals 

 three pounds of cotton-seed meal a day, and all the coarse 

 fodder they would eat. You cannot grow young animals on 

 good hay profitably in most parts of New England : it is out 

 of the question, at present prices. I can give you some 

 statistics on that point. I had two heifers that were fed 

 on half cotton-seed and half corn meal : the rest of their 

 food was corn-fodder and straw. They were yearlings, and 

 weighed about seven hundred pounds. The cost per day 

 was seventeen cents and three-quarters for the pair, — less 

 than nine cents a day. The growth was three pounds and a 

 fraction a day, — five cents and two-tenths per pound of 

 growth. But my young stock gain in summer almost identi- 

 cally the same as in winter, — summer cost a cent and a half 

 per pound, or average cost three cents and thirty-five hun- 

 dredths per-pound. These cheap foods I speak of make my 

 steers and heifers grow as rapidly in winter as in summer. 

 A year's growth costs a little less than the selling-value. 



Mr. Slade. When you speak of corn-meal, do you mean 

 that the cob is ground with the corn ? 



Mr. Sanborn. I do : yes, sir. I find that a pound of it, 

 particularly when fed to pigs, does just as much, or about as 

 much good as clear meal. I would not feed it to very young 

 pigs : they want something more easily digestible than the 

 cob. I prefer feeding young pigs middlings. I have found 

 that a pound of cob-meal gives me almost identically the 

 same result as clear meal for pigs. 



Question. Does cob-meal increase the butter-product? 



Mr. Sanborn. I have found that cob-meal does not in- 



