1847.] Mode of Feeding Cattle. 221 



were affected, and that on observing the circumstance, he hud them 

 taken up and put into barrels, and that now they kept welh 



My practice is, to get my potatoes into the cellar as soon after 

 they are dug as may well be, not leaving them to be affected by 

 the influence of the atmosphere. 



I have thus given my views on this interesting subject, hoping 

 that it" they should not be found to be correct, in eveiy respect, 

 they may lead to more correct discoveries from abler and more 

 scientific persons. In conclusion, I would recommend that those 

 engaged in agriculture, should make the experiment here proposed, 

 and such others as their minds may suggest, in order, if possible, 

 to attain to a correct knowledge of the disease and its cause, so 

 that a remedy may be found. A'ery Respectfullv, 



CORNELIUS CHASE. 



Chatham, Columbia county, JV. Y., 1847. 



ON THE BEST MODE OF FEEDING CATTLE. 



BY PROFESSK JOHNSTON. 



The following is the substance of a lecture delivered at Inver- 

 ness, before the Highland Society of Scotland. After a few pre- 

 liminary observations, the lecturer observed — 



That he appeared before the meeting as the representative of 

 the Agricultural Chemistry Association of Scotland. They had 

 all heard of that Association, and many of them were members of 

 it. The object of the Association in having this meeting was two- 

 fold. Every one, acquainted with the state of agriculture in dif- 

 ferent parts of Great Britain, cannot have failed to observe certain 

 practices in operation, in various parts, of which agriculturists in 

 general might profitably avail themselves. By going into differ- 

 ent counties, they found practical men possessed of knowledge, 

 the diffusion of which would be of the greatest possible advantage 

 to the general mass of the agricultural community. Now, the 

 purpose of the Agricultural Chemistry Association had in view — 

 in connection with these general observations — was to collect all 

 the information in their power, through their officers or organs, 

 or through meetings such as this; and, having collected that knowl- 

 edge, their next great object is to diffuse it in such a way as to 

 be productive of the most beneficial results to agriculture in 

 general. Like scattering seed through their fields, the diffusion of 

 that knowledge would produce vegetation in spring, and fruit in 

 autumn, and the more liberal the deposit, the more abundant, the 

 return. They were here met together, consequently, in posses- 



