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lage and half an acre for alfalfa and corn fodder. 

 All the clippings of the orchard and lawns or yards 

 count in for cow feed, and when these are kept up, 

 as they can be on the intensive system, they will go a 

 long way to furnish food through the whole summer. 



Half an acre of alfalfa will furnish three heavy 

 cuttings of either summer feed or hay. Corn fodder, 

 carefully drilled and hoed and standing eight feet 

 high before cut, will furnish an astounding weight 

 of food. Every ounce of it will be eaten if only it 

 is fed judiciously. 



What is true of the cow is equally true of a horse. 

 I asked a drayman how much his horse cost him 

 for feed annually. He replied : " My yard is all 

 alfalfa, not much more than half an acre, but it gives 

 me about all the hay I need for six months." In 

 the Southern States we resort to cassava for horses 

 or cows. Cut up half a peck of this root and sprinkle 

 it with meal or oats and you have a splendid ration. 

 One hill of cassava is equal to five or six hills of 

 corn. 



We need to work from this time on more directly 

 for bovine intelligence. The cow has a deal of latent 

 brain power, so far applied only to getting food 

 and rearing calves. Raising an Ayrshire yearling 

 some years ago, I found her as capable of compre- 

 hending a joke as a collie dog. She was literally 

 full of fun. 



Forty fowls had their roost in reach of her range, 

 and when I would go down to pet her she would 



