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milk than I ever had from any other cow. After she had 

 her third calf, she ran along four months after calving at 

 sixteen quarts, and one season she made nineteen quarts. If 

 I could replace that cow, or get ten cows as good, I would 

 willingly give $2,000 for the ten. 



Question. What was her breed ? 



Mr. Emery. Shorthorn. She never has lost any time. 

 She has had foot-ail, or something of the kind. That is the 

 only thing that ever troubled her. She has taken her food 

 and drink regularly. I think she is worth any two cows I 

 ever had. 



Mr. Everett. What is her condition now? 



Mr. Emery. Her beef condition is low. 



Mr. Arthur A. Smith. I want to make one statement 

 that will, perhaps, be interesting to this audience. I under- 

 stand that in the western part of this State, during the very 

 recent past, three different herds of cows have been troubled 

 with this disease. In one herd, some eighteen cows ; in an- 

 other, about ten ; in another, two ; and in each case the 

 owners of those herds, who had built silos, and filled them 

 with ensilage, attributed the disease to the feeding of ensi- 

 lage. Does Mr. Emery feed ensilage? and if so, can he 

 not attribute this abortion to the feeding of that stuff ? 



Mr. Emery. It so happens that I do not feed ensi- 

 lage. I do not believe in ensilage. My feeding has 

 been : one foddering of hay, with cut feed, composed of 

 corn fodder and second crop hay, with meal and shorts. 

 The cows are fed twice with the meal and shorts, and 

 once with hay. The first year that I fed in that way I 

 kept an account of what it cost me from the first of Jan- 

 uary. It was fourteen cents and two mills a day ; but 

 I reckoned the second crop at ten dollars, and the corn 

 fodder at seven dollars a ton. I should say that, compar- 

 ing corn fodder and the second crop with hay, for feed- 

 ing purposes, I put them in too low. I think the facts were 

 published at that time in the " New England Farmer." Last 

 year I. had nothing but very good English hay, my second 

 crop having failed. I estimated my corn fodder at $12.50, 

 and my hay at $20.00 per ton. It cost me about twenty- 

 three cents a day. That does not include the labor. When 



