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and racks kept full, is all they want, except straw scattered through 

 the shed to lie on. A good cistern ought to be so placed as to re- 

 ceive all the liquid from the cows, stable and yard, and at conveni- 

 ent times cast it away on the neighboring lands. 



JOSEPH CARTER. 



Milking qualities of American Cows — Management 3 Feedings §*c. 



MoRRisANiA, N. Y., Jan. 18th, 1844. 



Dear Sir — In answer to yours of the 4thj which reached me on the 

 12th, I will state briefly my experience, and if not done as fully as 

 at the club, you must remember that I have no one to ask questions 

 now. 



My dairy was established in 1837, and I have found that the best 

 cow I ever had was a short horn heifer. The best cows are our Ame- 

 rican breed, picked up around the country. Our mode of feeding 

 has been pasture and soiling in the summer, and hay, Indian and oil 

 cake meal and shorts in the winter,and sometimes sugar beets and pars- 

 nips. W*:' have generally sowed a piece of rye on very rich ground, for 

 the first spring feed, which is ready to cut by the first of May, and when 

 young, before the seed stalk has started, is good for milk. Our next 

 has been clover, then green oats j by that time the first sowed corn 

 is fit to cut ; this last, by being sowed at different times, can be kept 

 fit for use till frost, and is, I think, the best of all green feed for 

 cows, as it lasts longer, yields more feed, and makes as much and as 

 milk as any other feed. Our highest feed in winter, when we are 

 trying to i)eef our cows, and milking them at the same time, has 

 been about six quarts of Indian meal, four quarts of oil cake meal, a 

 half bushel of shorts, and as much hay as they could eat, per head, 

 per day. I think sugar beets a good feed, but cannot say whether 

 they can be raised as cheap as other feed. Those that I fed were 

 raised for a sugar mill which did not use them, and I bought them 

 fur 16 or 18 cents per bushel. At that price they do well for early 

 spring feed ; in the winter I do not think they are better than tur- 

 nips, or good as potatoes. Out of a lot of cows, averaging the last 

 four years 130 head, we have not lost morethan 4 by sickness. 

 The above is a hasty statement of facts, which I hope will answer 

 your purpose. Yours truly, 



G. MORRIS. 



To H. Meigs, Esq.^ Sec'y Farmer^ s Club. 



Lambert Wyckqff"'s Statement of his Cabbage Crop. 



The following is my statement respecting a crop of cabbage which 

 I raised this season : (Peter Hulst, Farmer.) There were twenty 

 acres planted with cabbage : about eight acres was sod, and was 

 ploughed in the fall, and crossed-ploughed the next spring, and bar- 



