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as oil-cake, oats, barley, corn meal, good sound 

 hay, and a moderate quantity only of turnips. 

 But, if the milk is designed for cheese, then 

 beans, peas, vetches, or clover- hay, should be 

 fed, because those articles of food are richer in 

 curd substance. 



For cattle the food should always be sweet 

 and fresh, and if the several articles, as beans, 

 turnips, corn-meal, etc., were first boiled, and 

 then allowed to become cold before being fed to 

 the stock, the advantages gained would more 

 than repay the additional labor. 



The food of hogs is better given slightly 

 soured. The vegetable refuse, meal, potatoes, 

 etc., should be boiled and mashed together, and, 

 ^thus mixed, allowed to sour; for it has been 

 found that more and better pork is thus made 

 than when the hogs' food is fed perfectly sweet. 



Apples are an excellent food either for hogs 

 or other stock; and they would be thus more 

 profitably used by the farmer than converted 

 into cider. 



Questions. What course would you pursue, if you in- 

 tended your milk to be made into cheese ? In what state is 

 the food of cattle best given ? How is the food of pigs best 

 given ? Why should the food of pigs be cooked, and slightly 

 eour ? Are apples a good article of food for stock ? 



