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should have been included, viz,, proper care and feed. Bj 

 proper care I have reference to the habit farmers have in letting 

 their cows be out in cold, windy or stormy days. I have seen 

 cows stand all day in a March wind without any protection. 

 Let a man stand there so many hours and it would unfit him for 

 labor for a week. In relation to feed, farmers often turn their 

 cows out on a frosty morning to eat frozen grass, or eat old fog, 

 and, so long as this bloats them up and makes them look full, 

 they think they have feed enough. Cows should never be 

 turned out on a frosty morning, but should be fed in the barn ; 

 and whether cold or hot, after the grass has been spoiled by 

 frost, they should be fed daily in the barn and kept up all cold 

 days, and thus keep up their health and flesh, otherwise they 

 will soon lose all they have gained during the summer. 



L. W. Curtis, Chairman. 



FRANKLIN. 



Fro)n the Report of the Committee. 

 We have uncultivated or half-cultivated land enough in this 

 county to employ every man and woman and child in improv- 

 ing it profitably, and it is altogether too late in the day to say 

 that farming " doesn't pay," and pay better too on the average 

 than any other pursuit. But whatever may be the necessities 

 of the professions and all other callings outside of ours, no boy 

 or girl is so well fitted to act well his part in them even, as he 

 or she who has been well brought up on a farm, taking an 

 active part in all its labors, in-doors and out, till fifteen or sixteen 

 years of age. Then let us induce them by all means in our 

 power, to engage in this most honorable and independent 

 calling. As our able and honored predecessors say in their 

 report, " give the boys each a pair of calves, a lamb or colt, 

 and let them see what they can do." We happen to know of a 

 case to the point, in our vicinity. A boy only eight years old, 

 was given a beautiful pair of steer calves (Herefords,) costing 

 at a week old, five dollars, by his father, being told he might 

 take care of them, feed, break and train them to his heart's 

 content, and when they came of age to sell, a moderate price 

 should be deducted for pay for keeping, and the balance he 

 might lay in the savings bank to pay his tuition at college or do 

 some other good with. He took great delight in rearing and 



