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ture. Shift of pasture is frequently made to keep feed 

 fresh and a good bite. About one acre per cow affords 

 plenty of feed till the first of August. If enough land 

 was turned to pasture to feed the cows through the 

 season, it would get a start of them about this time, and 

 be hard and dry the balance of the season. To avoid 

 turning on my meadows in the fall, I take one acre to 

 every ten cows, plough and prepare it the fore part 

 of June for sowing ; I commence sowing corn broadcast, 

 about half an acre at a time (for twenty-five cows), so 

 that it may grow eighty or ninety days before it is cut 

 and fed. I have found, by experiment, that it then con- 

 tains the most saccharine juice, and will produce the 

 most milk. If the ground is strong, I sow two bushels 

 per acre ; more if the ground is not manured. 



" The common yield is from fifteen to twenty tons (of 

 green feed) per acre. About the first of August, when 

 heat and flies are too oppressive for cows to feed quietly 

 in the day-time, I commence feeding them with what 

 corn they will eat in the morning, daily, which is cut up 

 with a grass-scythe, and drawn on a sled or wagon to 

 the milk-barn and fed to them in the stalls, which is 

 one hour's work for a man at each feeding. When thus 

 plentifully fed, my cows have their knitting-work on 

 hand for the day, which they can do up by lying quietly 

 under artificial shades, erected in such places as need 

 manuring most, and are most airy, by setting posts and 

 putting poles and bushes on top, the sides being left 

 open. These shades ma} T be made and removed annu- 

 ally, to enrich other portions of soil, if desired, at the 

 small expense of one dollar for each ten cows. At 

 evening, my cows are fed whey only, because they can 

 feed more quietly, with less rambling, and will give 

 more milk by feeding most when the dew is on the 

 grass. 



