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taking into consideration the amount of feed consnmed — when 

 turned to the butcher proves but a "scrub," if I may use the 

 expression. They are too small for beef where grain and feed 

 are cheap. I feed corn meal, witli oats or bran, as much as the 

 cow will take and fill herself with hay. I make it a point to 

 give as much grain to a cow as she will eat. When yarded 

 cows will not do well. My cows have produced over $40 in 

 butter. The past year I have raised fifty-five good calves. 

 Give them new milk for two weeks, then give them skim 

 milk. My cows are put in the stable at night, fed grain, then 

 hay ; in the morning I feed hay and grain, and turn them into a 

 yard protected from wind. Feed hay in a rack. There is a 

 tank of fresh water always ready for their use. 



The sixty cows have produced nearly eleven thousand 

 pounds of butter. My wife has* made the butter and appeared 

 to enjoy the work. I have been well paid for the labor ex- 

 pended. 



THE NORMAN HORSE. 



A horse weighing less than twelve hundred pounds is, in 

 my estimation, unfit for the plo\y or drag. A fourteen hundred 

 pound horse, well made up, just suits me. I am breeding from 

 full blood or imported Norman. I have one two years old in 

 August whose weight is fourteen hundred pounds ; another 

 three months older whose weight is about the same ; and one 

 yearling twelve hundred and fifty. These, perhaps, will be 

 more fitted for the drag. The Norman horse is mild in temper, 

 easily broken, trusty, a fast walker, and hardy ; his powers of 

 endurance are great. 



