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with one quart of meal to each cow, and also ten pounds 

 of corn fodder to each cow per day. 



11 1 commence feeding my cows in the spring, before 

 calving, with three quarts of meal each per day, until 

 the feed in the pasture is good. 



" I consider the best mixture of grain, ground into 

 meal, for milk, is equal quantities of rye, buckwheat, 

 and oats. For the last ten years I have not made less 

 than five hundred pounds of cheese and twenty pounds 

 of butter to each cow ; and one year I made six hundred 

 and forty pounds of cheese and twenty pounds of butter 

 to each cow. 



" A cow will give more milk on good fresh grass than 

 any other feed. When the grass begins to fail, 1 make 

 up the deficiency by extra feed of meal and corn fodder. 

 I feed all my whey to my cows. I let them run dry 

 four months, and during this time I give them no extra 

 feed, always keeping salt before them." 



Another, with one of the best butter dairies in the 

 same state, explains his mode of management of cows 

 in the stall as follows : " In the management of my stock 

 the utmost gentleness is observed, and exact regularity 

 in the hours of feeding while confined to the stable, and 

 of milking throughout the year. 



" The stock is fed regularly three times a day. 

 " In the morning, as soon as the milking is over, each 

 cow (having been previously fed, and her bag cleaned 

 by washing, if necessary) is thoroughly cleaned and 

 groomed, if the expression may be used, with a curry- 

 comb, from head to foot, and, when cleaned, turned out 

 to drink. The stable is now cleaned out, the mangers 

 swept, and the floors sprinkled with plaster ; and as the 

 cows return, which they do as soon as inclined, they 

 are tied up and left undisturbed until the next hour of 

 feeding, which is at noon. 

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