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in our section have fed it cob and all, mixing it with bran, 

 and have had good success. Now, is it economy for the 

 farmers to grind the cob, or shell the corn before carrying 

 it to the mill? The past year I had a good crop of rowen, 

 which I fed. After my rowen was gone I substituted gluten 

 meal. It did not increase the flow of milk, but it added 

 to the quantity of cream. I was told that rowen was not 

 worth harvesting. 



Ex-Governor Hoard. I never could determine whether 

 the cob had any practical effect on the meal except a mechan- 

 ical one, that of lightening the meal in the stomach. I never 

 could discern very much nutritious quality in it, l)ut I think 

 there are many saints who do not wear crowns, and I think 

 there are many influences in digestion which are not included 

 in nutrition. I believe many things are useful, and the me- 

 chanical effect of keeping the whole food from impaction,, 

 from becoming pasty in the stomach, is a good one. Youi 

 feed rowen. Rowen is dried grass, not hay. It has none 

 of the woody stock ; it is the finest food in the world, be- 

 cause grass is the finest feed, and the man who says that 

 rowen is not worth saving should at once take steps to escape 

 the judgment to come. I do not know why men reason as. 

 they do. To determine the effect of croppage, I took a lawn 

 mower and cut two-inch grass and fed my cow on it, and she 

 never would make more butter than she would on a plenty 

 of nice croppage, June grass croppage. I desired to know 

 how much she would eat, when she had all she wanted. No- 

 body had ever made the experiment. So I weighed it, and 

 found she ate eighty pounds a day in the stable, and she 

 gave me her return just the same as she did grazing out- 

 doors. At the same time I dried a corresponding quantity, 

 the same number of pounds, dried it thoroughly ; it made 

 from twelve to sixteen pounds of dried food. 1 fed that to 

 the cow, and she dropped right down. Gentlemen, succu- 

 lence hath a value not recorded in the philosophy of man in 

 its eff'ect upon digestion. Succulent food has a pleasure and 

 palatability about it, and it affords solace and satisfiiction to 

 the cow. 



The Chairman. I would like to hear from Mr. Bullard,. 

 one of our old farmers. 



