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heifers as large a quantity of milk as could reasonably be 

 expected, considering their size and age ; and the quality 

 certainly surpasses, on the average, any milk it has been my 

 fortune to see. I have now, l»esides the imported stock, three 

 pure-blood bulls, which will be a year old in the spring and 

 summer of 1862, three pure-blood heifers and one steer of the 

 same age, one half-blood Kerry and Shetland steer, and three 

 half-blood Kerry heifers. All have improved wonderfully under 

 my winter regimen. We think all the imported heifers are in 

 calf to Mountaineer, who is in fine condition. 



FEEDING OF STOCK. 



NORFOLK. 



Statement of A. W. Cheever. 



Wishing to make some experiments in feeding cows on grain 

 crops, <fec., I sent a notice to the secretary of the society, which 

 he was desired to accept as the first step toward an entry for 

 premium for the best experiment in soiling cattle. I also 

 requested the committee, through him, to make any suggestions 

 they might think proper in relation to the matter. As I waited 

 to hear from the committee, I neglected to commence at the 

 proper time to weigh and measure and keep an accurate record 

 of dates, ttc. Therefore I have Jiow no such statement to 

 make as I intended and hoped to have. But I will tell you, in 

 a general way, what we have been doing, not only during the 

 present, but in past years also. 



My father's farm, on which I am a laborer, is not naturally 

 good pasture land — being too cold and wet to produce sweet 

 feed, unless drained and cultivated. It is too strong, al^^o, to 

 be worth reclaiming for pasture alone. 



On tliis account we have for several years been trying to 

 work into a course that would leave us less dependent on 

 pasture for support of our stock. As a preliminary step, we 

 set aj)art a number of acres as unimprovable ; where the gi-owth 

 of wuod should be encouraged, instead of our former practice 

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