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and ninety cents. At that age he should weigh sixteen hundred 

 pounds, and should be worth five cents per pound, or eighty 

 dollars. This leaves a balance of sixteen dollars and ten cents 

 only, which looks small comparatively for feeding an animal for 

 three years ; but we must remember that the manure will pay 

 for handling him, and that we have charged him the highest 

 price paid in the market for all that has been consumed. We 

 must also remember that the time of man and team, wear and 

 tear of wagon, has been saved; in fact, the whole product of 

 the farm, after having gone through the animal machine, has 

 been rendered in a very short time into one of the most perfect 

 fertilizers yet produced. 



MANAGEMENT OF BREEDING COWS. 



In order to obtain sixteen hundred pounds in a three year 

 old steer, we have only to cross with the pure blood Durham 

 bull, and feed him as an animal should be fed from his birth. 

 Every thing depends upon the care given the first year. If the 

 calf increases one pound a day by his extra feed, he may be 

 expected to gain another pound by his ordinary growth, so that 

 there is evidently a double gain. In order to raise good calves 

 we must feed our cows. I think we damage our interests 

 greatly when we suffer our milch cows to come out in the 

 Spring in low condition. We are apt to think at the time per- 

 haps, when they are dry it is enough to give them our coarsest 

 fodder, when wc should give them the kindest treatment, and 

 most nourishing food, that their calves may come strong and 

 healthy. I believe that the quality and quantity of milk given 

 during the Summer, will be very much increased by extra care 

 during the Winter. 



MEADOWS. 



Good meadows are very rare, from the fact that farmers, 

 as a rule, plow from year to year, growing corn, wheat, oats, 

 etc , so long as the soil is capable of producing these crops. 

 When it is completely exhausted, they resolve to seed down to 

 grass. Timothy is sown, and a miserable crop follows, not 

 worth mowing. But I am happy to say that a new era is at 



