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that the farm will support. But in Massachusetts, certainly 

 anywhere within thirty miles of the city of Boston, it has 

 been found that, by increasing the number of cattle and 

 making up the deficiencies of the farm by the purchase 

 of cotton-seed meal and linseed meal, a profitable result has 

 been secured. 



Mr. C. D. Sage (of New Braintree) . I would like toaskthe 

 relative feedinof value of gluten meal and cotton-seed meal. 



Professor Cheesman. I cannot give you the exact figures, 

 but I should say, roughly, that I should be willing at all times 

 to pay five or six dollars a ton more for cotton-seed meal 

 than for the Chicago gluten meal, which is the best in the 

 market, and at least four or five dollars a ton more for new- 

 process linseed meal than for gluten meal, on account of the 

 higher manurial value of those two products, as compared 

 with gluten meal. 



Question. Are there not some injurious effects from the 

 use of cotton-seed meal ? 



Professor Cheesman. If fed without judgment, there may 

 be. I should never recommend the use of more than twenty 

 per cent of it in making a mixed grain ration. I think that 

 the limit of safety in all mixtures of grain is about twenty per 

 cent of cotton-seed meal or linseed meal. 



Mr. E. B. Lynde (of West Brookfield). Something has 

 been said about the raising of forage crops, and not feeding 

 any cotton-seed meal, linseed meal, etc. That is what I 

 have practised for a number of years. I have followed the 

 course he recommends, with the exception of the use of 

 ensilage. I have no silo. I am very fiivorable to the 

 use of ensilage on many farms, but I do not think it is 

 economical on every farm in Massachusetts. I believe that 

 the farmers of Massachusetts generally should raise a corn 

 crop. Corn has been grown on my farm, perhaps thirteen 

 hundred bushels of ears, this year. I want to say that a 

 farmer, in my opinion, can raise his corn for very much 

 less than what he can purchase it for. We must remember 

 that the corn crop is an excellent crop to prepare the land 

 for grass. I do not know but that is the principal reason 

 why I raise so much of it. I have not been in the habit of 

 raising oats, and perhaps my experience corresponds with 



