78 ON COMPARATIVE VALUE OF CROPS. 



subject — (the present year there has been no application for pre- 

 mium) : 



Select the best formed cattle, from five to eight years old, of quiet 

 disposition and good appetite, inclining to fatten. After the spring 

 work is over, commence giving them the best pasturage during the 

 summer, also the best fail feed until they come to the barn ; then 

 feed them with good hay and Indian meal, at first from one to two 

 quarts per day, gradually increasing till six or eight quarts are given, 

 until they are slaughtered, or about fifteen bushels of meal to each 

 animal. This process furnishes the largest weight, the best quality 

 of beef, commanding the highest price in the market, and at the 

 present prices, a profit to the owner. 



Also, with respect to fattening swine — select those weighing about 

 100 pounds, which will cost about $5 00 each, purchasing corn at 

 the common rates. Keep them in a large roomy yard, with a good 

 supply of loam from the road-side and muck from the swamp, giving 

 them a dry room to lodge in. Feed them with three quarts of corn 

 per day for one year. This will give 400 pounds of good pork, which 

 has usually paid for all the corn and the first cost of the animal ; 

 and what is taken from the yard will pay well for all the labor which 

 has been expended. 



For the Committee. 



JEREMIAH COLMAN. 



Newburyport, Nov. 9, 1849. 



ON COMPARATIVE VALUE OF CROPS, &c. 



Report of the Committee on Compartive Value of Crops as Food 

 for Cattle : 



It may again be said, as it has been in former years, that there 

 has been no application for premium on this important subject. 



I am aware that it is somewhat difficult on this, as on many other 

 subjects in regard to farming, for a person to try an experiment 

 which will be fully satisfactory to himself, there are also many causes 

 operating, and which must be taken into the account. This, how- 

 ever, should not deter us from trying experiments, for it is the only 

 way to get correct inforuuiiion. 



