IX.] CORN IS APPLTCABLE. 



a prize in this way, whether for oxen, sheep, or 

 hogs, must make use of corn-ears in the beginning 

 and corn meal at the end; for the hogs can eat 

 the meal, that is to say, they can get at it after 

 they are too heavy to stand, during the time neces- 

 sary to pick up and grind the grain of whole corn. 

 The corn-meal, though more nutritious, is not 

 so heating as barley meal ; and is therefore ex- 

 cellent for cows which give milk for butter. 

 Last winter I kept a horse, four milch rows, 

 ewes as before mentioned, and lambs; and never 

 was there a handful of hay used in my vard. 

 My cows, which it was necessary to keep well, in 

 order to have plenty of butter, and that fine and 

 yellow, and of a sweet flavour, were fed upon 

 corn-meal, a gallon of which was mixed^ and well 

 rubbed together, with about a half-a-bushel of 

 fine cut wheat straw, instead of which latter I 

 should have used corn tops if I had had them. 

 Every body was surprised to see such butter made 

 in ivinter. One of the cows was near her calving- 

 time in the month of April ; but we made, upon 

 an average, twenty- four pounds of butter a 

 week ; besides a pretty liberal supply of cream, 

 not made into butter. Our butter was sold, when 

 ncKt wanted, at two-pence a pound higher than the 

 general run of the best butter from the best dairies 

 in the country. 



151. Poultry-feeding. This is a very great 



