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pastures, if we have got sufficient land out of wliich to make 

 good pastures, by turning it into meadows. 



Dr. Todd. I would like to ask a practical question. How 

 can people who live in a village like this — and Massachusetts is 

 full of them — keep cows ? We want milk, and yet we have no 

 pastures. We drive our cows a mile and a half or two miles to 

 find a pasture, and then there are five cows on one pasture, 

 however small. Is there any way in which people in a village 

 of this size can keep a cow or two cows, and feed them through 

 the summer, without destroying the animals, and have good 

 milk ? 



Mr. Goodman. I suppose these substitutes for grass are not 

 grass itself. You can't keep a cow in a city lot, of not more 

 than a third of an acre, unless you have something to feed her 

 upon. 



Dr. Todd. Is there any substitute for grass ? 



Mr. Goodman. I don't suppose there is, but a cow will give 

 milk of a good quality with ordinary hay and ordinary keeping. 

 Cows are kept so in the city of New York on high rents, and 

 there is no complaint of the quality of the milk, but the quan- 

 tity is not so great. 



Dr. Todd. Does not the animal suffer? 



Mr. Goodman. I do not think the animal suffers. I had 

 milk for a long time from a cow kept in a stable. She had her 

 hay every day, and every morning or night, bran in warm water, 

 and occasionally a little corn-meal. I don't suppose she would 

 know what grass was, after having been there so long as she had 

 been. But a much cheaper way in our villages would be to 

 have a man bring milk round and sell it to your families, if you 

 can find men honest enough not to water it too much. 



Question. Have you any such men in Lenox ? 



Mr. Thompson. I will say tliat I have followed Dr. Loring's 

 opinions for many years in regard to feeding dairy stock ; I 

 have drawn very many good conclusions from them, and adopted 

 his suggestions in a great many ways. In regard to the profit 

 or necessity of feeding cattle upon our mowed lands during the 

 latter part of the season, I must say exactly as he does, that no 

 farmer of small means on a small area of grass land can carry 

 on his farming profitably without pasturing his mowed lauds. 



