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variety of food. I repeat it, from an experience of years 

 in feeding' dairy cows, the portion of good bright corn- 

 fodder, fed once a day, that dairy cows will eat, is worth 

 as much, pound for pound, as good rowen, mixed with 

 another feed of English haj'" and a suitable proportion 

 of grain. I believe it from my own experience, I believe it 

 from the experience of my neighbors ; l)ut, as I said before, 

 if you take weather-beaten corn fodder, it is good for noth- 

 ing, of course. 



Mr. n. Gakfield, of Lee. I am very glad to hear the 

 remarks of my friend in relation to corn-fodder. There is 

 great difference in corn-fodder. Timothy, and all our 

 grasses, after they are cut, are usually put under cover 

 within twenty-four hours. You cut your corn-fodder and 

 put it under a shed, or where it can have air and cure under 

 cover, and I would as lief have a ton of that as a ton of hay 

 to make milk. Bui if corn-fodder is stacked out and ex- 

 posed to storms and bad weather until it is damaged, and 

 then put into the barn, it is good for little to make milk of. 

 I think more of corn-fodder to make milk than I do of hay. 

 I get more milk from it and the cow is in a better condition. 

 I expect to feed it until March. I would say that I would 

 give one feed of ha}'" a day and two of corn-fodder, cut up. 

 If cured and treated as hay is treated, I would as lief have 

 a ton of that as a ton of timothy hay. 



Mr. GRi>rNELL. ]My remark was in regard to topping 

 corn. • Some farmers still continue the practice of topping 

 corn. I think it is true that the tops cut off and properly 

 cured and put into the barn are as good as hay. I was not 

 speaking in that connection of corn that was cut up at the 

 roots and stacked. I spoke of tops cut off, properly cured 

 and put into the barn. 



Mr. Henry Noble, of Pittsfield. I am fearful that fod- 

 der corn is not properly appreciated by our Berkshire farm- 

 ers. My experience has been that of Mr. Sessions. For 

 making milk, a ton of well-cured cern-fodder will give me 

 as much milk, and milk of a better quality, than a ton of 

 well-cured dry timothy. • 



Now, with regard to summer pastures. I have none, but 

 I have forty cows. I have no provision for them except 



