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As my connection with Mr. Hawes, as it has been of many 

 years continuance, is generally known to the public, my posi- 

 tion in relation to this experiment would not be understood 

 without an explanation, which should define my position in 

 reference to this business, except to those who, like yourselves, 

 have been acquainted with all the facts in the case, which 

 seemed to render this statement necessary, and it is now sub- 

 mitted to your disposal. 



Amherst H. Haives's Statement. 



Hon. John W. Lincoln : Sir, — As requested by you, I have 

 made a trial of feeding with cut and uncut hay, with your 

 speckled yoke of oxen, in terms of one fortnight each. When 

 one was fed with cut hay, the other had uncut hay, and so 

 changing at the expiration of each two weeks, except at the 

 close, when the trial was prolonged. The trial was commenc- 

 ed on Monday, the 15th day of December last, at which time 

 the near ox weighed 1,520 lbs., the off ox, 1,500 lbs., on the 

 hay scales of Henry S. Washburn, Esq., in the Quinsiga- 

 mond Village. Each ox was fed with the same quantity of 

 hay, of the same quality, 35 lbs. of uncut hay being eaten 

 each day, to the 29th December, by the near ox, and 35 lbs. 

 of cut hay by the off ox. On the 29th December the cattle 

 were again weighed on the same scales, and the near ox was 

 said to weigh 1,504 lbs., and the off ox 1,487 lbs. ; by this, it 

 would appear that the near ox had lost in weight 16 lbs., on 

 uncut hay, and the off ox 13 lbs. on cut hay. Between the 

 15th and 29th of December, these cattle were worked ten days 

 in drawing heavy loads of green oak wood from the farm into 

 the village, some of them exceeding 11 feet in measure, princi- 

 pally to the houses of Hon. L. Lincoln and W. S. Lincoln, 

 Esq., they being one yoke of a team of two pairs of cattle. It 

 should be stated, that I then believed that there must have 

 been an error in the last weighing, as above stated ; I was of 

 the opinion that the cattle had both gained in weight during the 

 fortnight, instead of having lost any of their flesh ; such was 

 also the opinion of others, who saw them, and that opinion 

 seems to be confirmed by subsequent results. The weight, as 

 given by the hay scales, on the 29th December, was, for the 



