124 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. [Jan. 



got to sleep at night your wife should wake you up and give 

 you some doughnuts and cheese to end off on? It is just 

 the same principle. We find that our cows are not heavy 

 feeders. If we compare the rations that our cows eat with 

 those that are eaten by other animals, I think we may safely 

 say that our cows are light eaters. They take their two 

 rations a day, and we do not feed them any more than they 

 will eat up clean, so that there are but a few ounces left of the 

 twenty-four hours' feed. The cow takes that ration, and has 

 all that time to digest it and get the most out of it. If any- 

 body wants to go to the extra expense of labor and time in 

 feeding often, I have no objection at all to their doing it. 

 They have a perfect right to their own way of feeding. I 

 was merely giving the profitable and economical way of 

 feeding animals. 



Mr. HiLDRETii. I would like to inquire for information 

 about feeding cider pomace. I have tried that to my satis- 

 faction. I have found out that there is a diflerence in cider 

 pomace as to how new or how old it is. If you want your 

 cows to keep up their flow of milk, beware and not use any 

 old, sour cider pomace. 



Professor Cooke. I do not think there is any need of 

 having any sour cider pomace, because it keeps perfectly 

 wherever it is packed. We first put it into our silo, which 

 was made rather better than the ordinary silos ; it kept 

 perfectly there. Then we made just a rough silo ; that is, 

 we took one corner of the barn and tacked building paper 

 against the sides, and built out the two sides with ordinary 

 boards and put building paper on the inside. We put the 

 pomace into that, keeping a man in there to tread it down 

 just as hard and close as he could. Then when we got 

 through we put building paper, boards and weights on top, 

 and let it stand for a])Out three weeks, until it had com- 

 pacted and the air was all pressed out. Cider pomace packs 

 together very much more closely than any green ensilage, 

 and after it is once packed it keeps almost indefinitely. This 

 was just as good last spring as when it was put in. We 

 could see practically no change during the winter. 



Mr. Bradley. We are told here that feeding young 

 corn before it is matured is not economical. Professor 



