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time, but I would like to say a word upon this question of 

 feeding. I have never had an_)^hing to do with Holsteins, 

 but I have with other breeds and with grade Jerseys and 

 grade Ayrshires, and so I can say that I have had some 

 experience in the feeding of cattle. Last week I slaughtered 

 a grade Jersey cow ; she was a small cow, and I had a large 

 thoroughbred standing in the same stable, that looked very 

 large in comparison ; but this little cow would eat more food 

 than any other cow I ever saw in my life. I wondered where 

 she put it all. Her beef has cost me all of fifteen cents a 

 pound in her feed. My experience has been that those little 

 cattle will stow away as much food as any large cattle. I 

 could not account for it. But I think the explanation our 

 friend Ware has given is the true one. 



A small horse that I had, weighing not more than nine 

 hundred pounds, would eat more than any other horse in my 

 stable to keep in fair condition. Then I have had larger 

 horses that required less food to keep them in first-rate con- 

 dition. I think the statement that has been made here is 

 true, that it does not cost much more to keep a large animal 

 than a small one. I have had fifty years' experience with 

 different breeds of cattle and horses, so I think I know 

 whereof I speak. 



Mr. Houghton. I would like to ask the gentleman who 

 spoke of those ugly bulls if they were Holsteins. 



Mr. Barrus. Yes, sir. 



Mr. Houghton. By whom were they imported? 



Mr. Barrus. One by the innocent Shakers of Enfield, 

 and the other by C. W. Adams of Goshen. I believe he is 

 now somewhere in the South. 



Mr. Houghton. Were they handled in the ordinary way 

 we handle cattle? 



Mr. Barrus. I cannot tell how they were handled pre- 

 vious to their coming here, but I know that the man had a 

 foreman on his farm that I wouldn't want to handle my cattle. 



Mr. Houghton. That goes a long ways towards an ex- 

 planation. Of course we have exceptions in this breed as 

 well as in all others. We have occasionally an ugly animal. 

 I have a six-year-old bull now that weighs 2,500 pounds, that 

 I lead around by a nose-ring ; I would not advise a stranger 



