20 MR. colman's address. 



for the attendance. To stock of this description, carrots, ruta 

 baga and common turnips are a valuable feed, and for this 

 purpose may be raised to advantage. Mutton fattened in the 

 immediate vicinity certainly deserves and will command the 

 preference with the butchers over that which is driven a great 

 distance, or which is brought down in a half frozen state. 



Pork is another article, which even at the present low prices, 

 may, I believe, be fattened without loss and perhaps to a very 

 small profit; at least it furnishes a market for our produce 

 without the trouble and expense of carrying it from the farm and 

 leaves a valuable manure for its benefit. I need not say any 

 thing of the important differences in the breeds of swine. Some 

 will scarcely repay the trouble of attendance, while from an 

 improved stock I have had a gain for weeks and months 

 together of two pounds, two and a quarter pounds, three pounds 

 and three and a half pounds per day. Cooked food for swine 

 is greatly to be preferred to raw food ; Indian meal is more 

 fattening than any other feed ; the growth of the first year is a 

 much greater gain than that of any subsequent period ; and I 

 believe it is best to keep them from the first not merely in a 

 growing but in as fat a state as we can get them. 



In regard to the fattening of Beef animals, my experience has 

 been little and that by no means encouraging. In a single 

 experiment where an exact account was kept, it was attended 

 with a great loss, as in general the profits in such cases go to the 

 butcher. I have wished to make further trials ; and I would 

 express the hope that a Society, distinguished for the judicious 

 selection of its subjects of premium, will deem it of particular 

 importance to encourage various and exact experiments, to 

 determine what may be profitably done in this way, and to 

 devise other successful modes of consuming the produce of a 

 farm so that what is carried away may not impoverish it. 



Next to the importance of cooking feed for swine, and I 

 believe it would be found of almost equal advantage for all 

 other animals, is the cutting up of all long feed for neat 

 cattle and horses. My owti experience has been considerable 

 in this way, and always strongly in its favor ; so has that of 

 many other persons within my knowledge ; but I shall refer 



