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had found it a good plan to break up a meadow after haying : 

 manure well on the turned soil, and sow grass seed only. The 

 next season he had cut from two to two and a half tons to the 

 acre, where the previous season he had cut almost nothing. 



Question Do you buy any manure ? No ; but I buy cot 

 ton seed cake to feed my cows. This is, at present prices, the 

 most valuable feed to be had, a ton of it being worth, at the 

 chemist's estimate, three tons of hay. It is now worth $27 per 

 ton in Boston. Linseed cake is also valuable, and English 

 farmers wonder how American farmers will let it be exported 

 in such vast quantities as it is. 



Judge FRENCH asked Mr. Quincy if he fed roots. No ; 

 Linseed cake and hay is the sole food three pounds of the 

 former per day, with cut hay. 



Mr. BARTLETT asked what Mr. Quincy's advice would be to 

 young farmers here, in regard to going west alluding to Mr. 

 Q.'s travels there. 



Answer If a young man will be content with the same liv 

 ing here that he will be obliged to put up with there, he can 

 make money here as well as there. They have no idea of 

 what decent living is there. Then, too, there is no society at 

 the west no schools, fit to be called such no aristocracy. 

 There is a perfect equality there ; your Irish gentleman who 

 curries your horse feels himself to be your equal, and not un- 

 frequently your superior. Civilization is in an embryo state, 

 society not yet having advanced to that perfection which we 

 see at the east. 



Question How does soiling affect breeding ? 



Answer I do not think it prejudical. I am not a stock 

 raiser myself, but farm merely for the profit. I buy my cows 

 in Vermont and New Hampshire, though sometimes I raise a 

 likely heifer calf. There are cows in my stable whose maternal 

 ancestors have been there for eight or ten generations past. 



Mr. TUCKER asked if ventilation was attended to. Yes, and 

 with great care. 



