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ble farmer knows just as much as the most celebrated veterin- 

 ary surgeon in regard to the cause or cure ; therefore the best 

 way seems to be to let it take its own course (as it will without 

 fear or favor), hoping it will leave us entirely in time, as it 

 seems already to have done some herds where almost the whole 

 have suffered. Good keeping has much to do with good cows ; 

 it is not much matter about poor ones. But little profit arises 

 from mealing cows ; certainly if heavily fed on meal they will 

 not last as long, are more liable to disease and trouble in the 

 udder, and the meal will not make extra milk enough to pay 

 extra expense. But every man who has one cow or more, 

 should plant corn to feed green, just as much as he plants his 

 garden for family use. Let him plant some early, so that he 

 can begin to feed soon as feed in pastures begins to fail, and 

 plant some later, so as to keep his feed in his mowing lots until 

 quite late ; if it does not make an extra quantity of milk it keeps 

 his cows in good condition, and he will get a large quantity of 

 feed from a small piece of ground which will well pay for the 

 labor. The white Maryland corn is best, as there are more 

 leaves on it than on other kinds and it produces a larger quantity 

 of feed. Some prefer the sweet corn, but there will not as much 

 grow on the same ground as of the other kind, and if you buy 

 tbe seed, sweet corn costs high. But every one should raise his 

 own seed, which he can do by planting early and giving it a 

 little extra attention. The best way to feed corn is in the barn. 

 Go with your wagon to the field and carry enough at once to 

 feed night and morning while milking. Cows love it, will eat 

 it all up and feel happy. 



Wm. Cushman, Chairman. 



WOECESTEE NOETH. 



Slateinent of Augustus Whitman. 



The mode of keep and feeding of my Shorthorns, also state- 

 ments of the milking capacities of some of the herd, of which 

 mention is made in several of the statements, can be told in a 

 few words. 



All milch cows are treated substantially alike. In winter 

 they are fed twice a day, a bushel of steamed feed made from 

 hay, straw and corn stover, and once with long dry hay. Of 



