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of October, he commences feeding half a bushel per head 

 per day of brewer's grains, which are hauled each day 

 from Newburgh, and fed to the cows in heaps laid upon 

 the clean sod. The winter feeding commences on an 

 average the middle of November, and ends about the 10th 

 of May. The cows are all stabled through the winter, 

 and at present turned out to water; but Mr. Colwell 

 intends to fix his stable so as to water them as they 

 stand in the stalls. For winter feed, everything of straw, 

 hay, or stubble kind, is cut up, and corn and cobs, and 

 occasionally oats ground, and two quarts of this meal, 

 with three pecks of brewer's grains to each cow, is mixed 

 up with the chopped straw, &c, twelve hours before feed- 

 ing, and given in quantities to satisfy each appetite — 

 not forgetting a daily allowance of salt. This feed, and 

 a warm stable, gives him almost as much milk in win- 

 ter as in summer. When I was there in October last, 

 the price of grains was four cents per bushel, and I think 

 I understood Mr. Colwell, that was his contract price 

 through the year. If you will add the present prices 

 of hay and grain, it will be interesting to some of us 

 "outside barbarians," and enable us to "calculate" the 

 cost of milk. [We shall be obliged to Mr. C. if he will 

 do this. — Ed.] Mr. Colwell could give you many other 

 items, worth your notice, I dare say, and I engage you 

 a most hearty welcome, if you will give him a call. 



There is another thing connected with this farm that 

 gives it a claim upon the notice of every true American, 

 who loves the mementoes of our Revolutionary history. 

 It is the very ground occupied by Washington's army, 

 while he occupied that memorable old stone house in 

 Newburgh, which is still known as Washington's Head- 

 quarters. It was upon this farm where our toil-worn, 

 poorly fed, and worse clothed soldiers used to lie down 

 in far worse winter-quarters than do the present occu- 

 pant's cows, and at times, too, when they would have 

 been right glad of some of the good, sweet meal now fed 

 to them, to say nothing of the rich milk poured out upon 



