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Goessmaun, at a meeting of the State Board last winter, made 

 the same statement. Now, when our pastures get very 

 short in July, having raised sowed corn for feed, we feed it 

 a little sooner than the professor would advise, and we find 

 that there is at once a very large increase of milk. If we 

 Avait until it is in a state of perfection, the frost comes so 

 soon that we can use very little of the product for soiling, 

 so we are obliged to feed it earlier. After frost comes we 

 have practiced feeding cider pomace direct from the mill, 

 and cab])age also. We raise from one to three acres of cab- 

 bages with that in view. Then, if the market calls for the 

 heads at a paying price, we sell them and buy some con- 

 centrated food ; if the price is very low, we feed them 

 to our cows and young stock. I have found cabbage the 

 best green feed that we raise on the farm. After the silo is 

 filled, instead of using weights for it, I pile on all the apple 

 pomace I can get, and it answers in place of weights ; and by 

 adding to it from day to day, directly from the mill, it is 

 pressed down very solid, and will keep perfectly, with the 

 exception of a little on the surfiice. There is no souring, as 

 has been represented here. 



Mr. GoDDARD of Barre. I think this difference in the 

 ideas of gentlemen about feeding twice or more times a day 

 is more apparent than real. I remember very well when 

 my father used to begin at five o'clock in the morning, and 

 feed the cattle from time to time until nine o'clock at night. 

 But some twenty years ago we began to hear of ' ' the Barre 

 system of feeding," because it was said to have originated in 

 Barre. It was feeding twice a day, instead of a dozen 

 times. It was not, however, giving the cows all their feed 

 at two feedings. Mr. Ellsworth, the gentleman who is 

 credited with originating the Barre system, gave his cows 

 five fodderings a day. He gave them grain and two fodder- 

 ings in the morning, and that was called one feeding ; in 

 the afternoon he gave them grain and three fodderings, and 

 that was called another feeding, which made two a day. 

 The cows were kept eating from the time the first foddering 

 was given them in the afternoon until they had consumed 

 the third, making two feeds a day. That is what I practice 

 at home. I call it feeding twice a day. Thee, with regard 



