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most importaut addition, as they keep the system open and 

 healthy, and promote the secretion of milk. And if the cows 

 are not in milk, but are to calve in spring, the difference should 

 be rather in the quantity than the quality of the feed. 



In feeding roots, the common English turnips, a sort of make- 

 shift crop, to be sown after some early crop has left the land, is 

 to be used first, and it helps to break the otherwise sudden 

 change from green food to dry hay in November and December. 

 The Swede will naturally follow, at the rate of half a bushel to 

 a bushel a day, according to the size of the animal. The man- 

 gold, which keeps admirably till late in the spring, and' improves 

 in quality, should follow the Swedes, and will cai'ry the stock 

 along to grass in good condition. 



All coarse fodder, cornstalks, swale hay and straw, should be 

 cut in the straw cutter and mixed together. The roots, after 

 being cut into slices, may also be mixed into this mass of cut 

 food, when the whole may advantageously be put into a large 

 close box, and a few quarts of shorts, middlings, or bran scat- 

 tered over it. If now hot water is poured upon this mass, it 

 will, after standing covered up a few hours, constitute a highly 

 relished and nutritious feeding. This is a simple and cheap 

 method of securing some of the advantages of steamino:. 



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Eegularity in the hours of feeding, and dll the operations in 

 the cow-house, is of the utmost importance, and second only to 

 a full and liberal supply of food. Indeed, regularity, cleanli- 

 ness, and gentle treatment may be considered as the cardinal 

 points of successful dairy management. These, in conjunction 

 with judicious feeding, will insure the highest rewards to be 

 derived from dairy stock. — G. L. Flint. 



Oxen. We know they are somewhat out of fashion, but we are 

 convinced that where a farmer keeps more than one team, one 

 of them had best be an ox team. You want horses to take you 



