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BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



[Jan. 



Memorandum of feeding six Cows at the State Farm, Westhoroufjh, ffteen days, 

 from March 22, to April 5, both inclusive, on cut meadoio hay and corn fod- 

 der, half each, and five pounds of shorts; three pounds of the hay was wet, 

 and the shorts, tohenfed, sjmnkled over it. 



The cows consumed in this tl'ial eighteen hundred and ninety- two 

 pounds of meadow hay and corn fodder, and four hundred and fifty 

 pounds of shorts, and lost in weight three hundred and twenty-three 

 pounds, which, at four cents the pound, comes to $12.92. The English 

 hay in the last trial, at three-fourths of a cent the pound, comes to 

 ^16.5.5 ; deduct from this $12.92, the value of the lost weight which 

 is chargeable to meadow hay and corn fodder, leaves $3.62 as the 

 value of the eighteen hundred and ninety-two pounds of meadow 

 hay and corn fodder consumed in this trial, a fraction over $3.83 the 

 ton, showing the meadow hay and corn fodder to he less than one- 

 quarter of the value of English hay. 



