AND RURAL ECONOMIST. 3J^ 



$510 23 

 Deduct on hand April 1, 1817, by es- 

 timation, four t(ns more than there 

 was Oct. 1, 1816, at twenty-five 

 dollars per ton, 100 $410 23 



Saving by the use of the straw cutter, 

 four months of the last six months, 

 or the difference in expense in feed- 

 ing with cut fcdder and that which 

 is uncut, $389 77 



Whole aiiiouiit of hay used for the 

 horses of the Salem stage, twenty- 

 five in number, from April 1 to T, cwt. qrs, Ihs, 

 Oct. 1, 1816, viz. : 22 



At thirty dollars per ton, (the lowest 



price in Salem,) $660 GO 



Whole amount consumed by the same 

 number of horses, from Oct. 1, 1816, 

 to April 1, 1817, 



T. cwt. qrs. lbs. Cost. 



Straw 15 13 $187 80 



Hay 2 15 81 00 



$268 80 



Saving in using chopped fodder five 

 months, $591 2C 



Total saving in using the straw cut- 

 ter nine months, viz. : at Newbury- 

 port, four mgnths, $389 77 



At Salem, five months, 391 20 



Total, $780 97 



The members of the board of trustees of the Massachusetts 

 Agricultural society, to w^hom the above account was commu- 

 nicated by Mr. Hale, were informed by that gentleman, that he 

 used no more orrain from Oct. IS 16, to Apri'l, 1817, than was 

 used from April, 1816, to Oct. 1816. 



Remarks.— There is not only nmch saving and gain in cutting 

 fodder when hay is low, but the animal is kept in better health, 

 more particularly old horses, and such as may have been in- 

 jured in their wind. 



It is a fact that horses will live and continue serviceable 

 much longer when fed on cut fodder. The machine invented 

 and manufactured by Willis, known as ' Willis^ improved Straw 



