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like those of one hundred years ago. Potatoes are raised and seut to the London 

 market. Hedges are everywhere, there being no board or wire fences. All the 

 buildings are of stone ; with either thatched or tile roofs ; barns of fair size, 

 oftentimes the barn and house are in one ; fruit is raised in abundance but lacks 

 the fine flavor of American fruit. The island is divided into districts, and each 

 one has its agricultural society. Those animals getting prizes are shown at th9 

 Royal Exhibition. Every one is allowed to breed from these animals, price £1 

 or thereabouts. The poor ones are slaughtered. Some are bred purely for fancy 

 pets, others for butter. Prices theie as here vary from $100 to $5,000. The 

 cattle are always sold by brokers. When .Ley are to be shipped from the island, 

 they must wait until the tide is right : they are put into crib-- and hoist.d ever so 

 high. One doesn't find so many auimals ruined there as here. They are fed 

 largely with roots, and with more care, and are put up every night. All grazing 

 cattle are tethered. For making butter the milk is kept in stone crocks. Butter 

 sells from thirty to sixty cents a pound iu our money. 



The "Ferdinzorf Stock" was again discussed. 



James Bullard of Lee, said he had lost more stock from injudicious over- 

 feeding than from any other source. We must know how much food every ani- 

 mal needs. He thinks certain qualities of beets help digestion. 



Leonard Tuttle of Sheffield doesuH like speaking about meamre but weight 

 of food. A pound of wheat bran will make as much and as good milk as a pound 

 of corn meal or wheat meal, and the cow will last longer and do better. Wheat 

 bran is better than rye bran or shorts. If much cotton seed meal is fed, you 

 will find the oil in the milk. For a good feed mix 100 pounds cotton seed meal, 

 150 pounds white corn meal, and 150 pounds wheat bran, plunge the mixture into 

 boiling water in the afternoons and feed next day. Prefer mixed feed to any 

 single kind, but if one alone is used, would give wheat bran. 



L. V. N. Blakeman of Egremont, said his method of feeding was similar to 

 that recommended by Mr. Tuttle, aud as Zacheus Cande of Sheffield, has just 

 turned off a pair of steers of 4,200 pounds, four years old, he would like to get 

 the best results. 



Mr. Gande said he fed them new milk the first year with not much skim 

 milk ; the next year some grain ; the next year two quarts grain ; the next sum- 

 mer no grain, and in the winter three quarts meal. At three years old in March 

 they weighed 3,200 pounds. The next summer no grain was given. In the fall 

 they were fed cut up corn and weighed 3,540 pounds. This year they were fed 

 five quarts each, twice a day, weighed 4.200, and sold at six and five-eighths cents 

 per pound. He thinks steers will turn best at two years old. 



After some further remarks by Mr. Tuttle on the watering of cows, the 

 meeting was dissolved. 



