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on the manufacturing towns and cities in which to market their 

 products. This interchange of commodities between the thrifty 

 manufacturers and farmers should teach the latter that a thor- 

 ough system should be adopted in their arrangements to make 

 it profitable, as well as in the former. But still, with all these 

 opportunities before them to gain knowledge and apply it im- 

 mediately to their business, they will be more likely, if they can 

 save a hundred dollars from the feed of their dairy stock, to 

 invest in one of these manufactories, where they will get but 

 eight to ton per cent. ; which money, if applied to their own 

 farms, by improving dairy stock, or in the barn arrangements, 

 for facilitating what are called the barn chores, or in pur- 

 chasing grass seeds or manure, by which two tons of hay could 

 be made to grow where but one now grows, it would return 

 them a much larger percentage, besides the pleasure and sat- 

 isfaction that their barns, stock and farms were becoming more 

 valuable under tliis improved management. 



If the manufacturer should neglect to improve and look well 

 to his investments, wliere he has to compete with others that 

 are alive and moving with or ahead of the tide of events that 

 surrounds us in all directions, he would soon be left in the rear, 

 and his business would grow poorer and poorer, till he would 

 exclaim, as the farmers are apt to, " that it does not pay." 



But as this article is to lay out the best method of feeding 

 dairy stock, we will take up the matter in the best form we can ; 

 but when a subject has been handled so well and by such able 

 writers as have preceded us, it is difficult to represent it in a 

 new light. 



But let us take the best end first, and afterwards see what 

 can be made of the poorer sorts of material that may be lying 

 around to waste, where we have not enough nor any way of 

 getting the better sorts. 



We will start on the ground that good upland English hay is 

 best if but one sort of food is to be continued through the win- 

 ter. Such hay, grown on land seeded as it should be, with 

 many sorts of grass seeds, and those that will mature or bloom 

 as near one time as possible ; such land as would return two 

 and a half tons to tlie acre, and tliis grass cut in tlie bloom and 

 not over-dried in making, and put into the barn in such quanti- 

 ties as will fill up an ordinary mow not less than ten feet at one 



