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Geneva, or the dairy farmers, using oil-cake for feeding. 

 But not one farmer in a hundred has ever seen it or tried 

 it. As a rule, they have no faith in buying any thing to 

 keep up their cattle in high condition. They sell grain, 

 and feed out hay and grass. These, no doubt, are the 

 staple articles of fodder, but all cattle will do better to 

 have some addition to hay and grass. I have always fed 

 every thing I could raise on my farm oats, buckwheat, 

 rye, and roots and have no doubt it pays. If any body 

 can use grain to a profit^ the farmer can. The man who 

 buys his grain expects to make a profit on it, and in most 

 cases, does so. Why should not the farmer feed his grain 

 and make the profit himself? If there is a profit in feed 

 ing twenty bushels of corn to a bullock, of say, three dol 

 lars, the farmer, especially if he live near a good market, 

 can make the profit a little better than any body else. 

 He wants the manure for his land, and the manure is on 

 the soil where it will be plowed in. There is no expense 

 for carting it three or four miles from the village, or of 

 shipping it fifty miles, or more, from the city. 



I always liked to feed grain, corn meal, oats, etc., but I 

 think now the oil meal pays better than even the grains. 

 The linseed meal comes pretty high, and that is one great 

 objection to its use. But the cotton seed meal comes 

 even cheaper than corn meal, and I think does better than 

 linseed, pound for pound. 



I had not used it a month, before Jake Frink came 

 along one morning and hailed me. 



&quot; What ye ben duin to yer cattle lately, Mr. Bunker ? 

 I see the hair looks mighty sleek and shiny, as ef it had 

 been combed with a fine tooth comb, and had some int- 

 ment on tu it.&quot; 



a You are right, neighbor, but the ointment was applied 

 on the inside. I have been feeding with oil meal.&quot; 



&quot;What upon airth is ile meal ? Never heern of sich stuff.&quot; 



&quot; Well, there is a fellow up here in Shadtown has start- 



