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they adopted their own estimates of the value of these articles, 

 the awards would have been the same. 

 All which is respectfully submitted. 



By order of the committee, 



John W. Lincoln, Chairman. 



Cliarles B. DemoncVs Statement. 



Gentlemen, — Not being fully satisfied in my own mind, as 

 to the advantages or disadvantages of cutting hay as food for 

 stock, I was encouraged by the society's premium to try an 

 experiment. The following are the results. The trial was 

 made with two cows, each seven years old, of native breed, 

 and ordinary size ; they were dried about the 10th of Decem- 

 ber, and kept during the month on coarse fodder, meadow hay, 

 oat straw, &c. On the 1st day of January the experiment 

 commenced. No. 1 calved the 4th day of March, 1851. No. 

 2 calved the 28th of February, 1851. Both cows are expected 

 to come into the dairy on the 9th of March, 1852 ; they were 

 fed on dry hay, with a half peck of turnips per day. 



No. 1. 



( Weight, 870 lbs. 

 Fed on cut hay, 1st two weeks, | Hay eaten, 316 lbs. 



( Gain in weight, 24 lbs. 



( Weight, 894 lbs. 

 Long hay, 2d two weeks, . . ] Hay eaten, 284 lbs. 



( Weight, 906 lbs. 

 Cut hay, od two weeks, . . . < Hay eaten, 295 lbs. 



( Gain, 14 lbs. 



( Weighty 920 lbs. 

 Long hay, 4th two weeks, . . < Hay eaten, 279 lbs. 



( Gain, 11 lbs. 

 Gain during trial, 61 lbs. 



No. 2. 



{ Weight, 850 lbs. 

 Fed on long hay, 1st two weeks, \ Hay eaten, 298 lbs. 



( Gain in weight, 17 lbs. 



