VETERINARY PROBLEMS. 43^ 



I get to the first of January, I shall weigh everything again ^ 

 once a month, up to March, and know just what it costs me 

 this year. 



Mr. Lane. How much grain did you give to each 

 animal ? 



Mr. Emery. They are fed one quart of cotton-seed 

 meal, a quart and a half of cornmeal, two quarts of corn on 

 the cob, oats and rye ground together, and a peck of shorts 

 each. 



Mr. Lane. I don't wonder they abort. I should say it 

 was too high feeding for health. 



Mr. Emery. 1 don't think the shorts add to' the high 

 feeding. I give them ten or eleven pounds of hay. 



Mr. Wetherell. Do the cows give milk enough* to pay 

 for all that feed ? 



Mr. Emery. Yes. I have forty-five cows now, and 

 milking thirty-six. They are making thirty-four cans of 

 milk a day ; most of them are nine and a half quart cans ; 

 some are eight and a half. 



Mr. Lane. Don't you think you could make more money 

 if you did not press your cows so hard, and have them bet- 

 ter at the end of three or four years ? 



Mr. Emery. I do not. Perhaps I would not have so 

 much abortion ; but I am not convinced on that point. The 

 majority of farmers in Middlesex North are feeding higher 

 than I do ; some of them give four quarts of cotton-seed 

 meal. 



Mr. Sessions. If the feeding which the gentleman has 

 described is to be called too high, the people in the Con- 

 necticut valley are all wrong. I know men who feed double 

 the amount Major Emery has stated, and they buy their 

 ffrain to make milk for sale. When a cow shrinks so that 

 she does not give what they consider a paying quantity, she 

 is sent to the butcher, and the money buys another cow. 

 That is the way they do business, and they do not have 

 abortion as the result. We must not recommend low feed- 

 ing here. I believe that the quantity of grain that Mr. 

 Emery indicated will keep a good-sized cow, but is really 

 moderate. It is a question whether it would not be neces- 

 sary to feed a large cow more than we would a small one, or 



