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can be kept much cleaner. Let the rear of the platform and 

 nearly all of the passageway be whitened twice or three times 

 a day with powdered gypsum, and then covered with an inch 

 or so of dry hardwood or hemlock sawdust, and the cow will- 

 keep herself clean, the air in the stable will be kept pure, and 

 the manure, solid and liquid, will be thoroughly saved. 



I know of no better manner of fastening cows than by 

 using the light but stilf and strong and easily fastened and 

 unfastened wood stanchion of O. H. Robertson's, hung by 

 three inches of chain above and below ; Barnard's stanchion 

 similarly made of iron or wood and fastened above and below 

 by small, stifl'iron elbows; and Robbin's running chain tie, 

 with or without a neck strap. These three I have selected, 

 out of hundreds investigated and experimented with, and the 

 longer I use these the better I like them. They all work 

 better if the manger slopes from all four sides to a space six 

 by twenty inches at the bottom of the manger. These are 

 inexpensive and convenient for the farmer, and clean and at 

 the same time comfortable for the cow. These four elements 

 are all absolutely necessary, and I know no other methods of 

 fastening which unite these four requisites. 



Give milking cows about seven pounds of hay three times a 

 day, and two to three quarts of grain morning and evening, 

 in the winter. Let this grain be cornmeal and Avheat mid- 

 dlings, half and half by measurement. Let the hay be tim- 

 othy, redtop, clover and orchard grass, all cut early, cured 

 quickly and not allowed to heat. Let the corn be New Eng- 

 land corn, if possible, and let both corn and wheat be perfectly 

 fresh and sweet. Roots are not necessary, nor ensilage ; if 

 either are given see that no portion of them be rotten. In 

 summer give rich old pasture, or a new pasture seeded with 

 an appropriate mixture of at least a dozen varieties of grass. 

 With either of these no grain ; with a poor pasture give half 

 rations of grain. Never feed cabbage, turnips, linseed meal, 

 cotton-seed meal or brewer's grains. Rye or oats may be 

 given at times for a change, but in very small quantities and 

 well mixed with the other grain. Don't feed a Jersey cow 

 too heartily, for she will either grow fat or get indigestion ; 

 in the former case she will give little butter, and in the latter 

 the butter won't be good. Have a small, protected, warm. 



