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f Weight, 867 lbs. 

 Cut hay, 2d two weeks, . . . < Hay eaten, 308 lbs. 



{ Weight, 884 lbs. 

 Long hay, 3d two weeks, . . < Hay eaten, 288 lbs. 



(. Gain, 16 lbs. 



( Weight, 900 lbs. 

 Cut hay, 4th two weeks, . . . < Hay eaten, 252 lbs. 



( Gain, 9 lbs. 

 Gain during trial, 59 lbs. 



During the 3d week of trial, No. 1 was accidentally hooked 

 by another animal in the abdomen, which, I think, must have 

 caused her pain, and she did not do as well, perhaps, as she 

 otherwise would have done. No. 2, during the last week of 

 trial did not appear to have so good an appetite as usual, the 

 hay was a little finer, and when cut, she did not relish it as 

 well. The hay used was a mixture of timothy and redtop, 

 about equal. The animals were kept in the barn all the time, 

 (excepting being turned out to water twice a day,) at a tem- 

 perature averaging 41 degrees. The turnips were fed to them 

 in common with my other cattle in the morning. The cows 

 are not fat, but in what would be called very decent order. 

 The time of weighing was in the morning, and before they 

 had drank. Changing the cows from poor to good hay will 

 account, perhaps, for their consuming more hay, and gaining 

 more in weight during the first period of trial than afterwards. 

 The hay was weighed and the animals fed by myself, and I 

 have endeavored to be as accurate as possible. 



Grafton, March 2d, 1852. 



Harvey Dodgers Statement. 



Sir, — The two animals on which I have been experimenting 

 for eight weeks during the last winter, and on which your pre- 

 mium is claimed, are a pair of half blood North Devon steers, 

 two years old past, or three years coming, dark red color, well 

 built, and very similar in all respects to each other. From 10 

 to 35 lbs. in weight is the greatest difference in the two at any 



