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rye is ready to cut; this is run through the machine and mixed with 

 the feed already named, which is the first process of soiling, beingf 

 fed in small quantities at first, so as to gradually accustom them to 

 the summer soiling. The rye is fed until clover comes in, which is 

 followed by "oats and peas," lucern and fodder corn, lasting into 

 November, when the feeding with dry fodder and roots is again begun. 

 In feeding dry cows, I find it very profitable to cut up wheat straw 

 and mix it with crushed turnips, giving about sixty pounds of turnips 

 and twenty pounds of straw per day to two-year-old animals. The 

 bulls are fed exactly as the milch cows. In addition to the matter of 

 feed in the winter treatment, we consider it to be of the first import- 

 ance to have the animals thoroughly curried and brushed, and the 

 pores of the skin kept open. This is done every morning with each 

 animal, and an abundance of clean straw is daily supplied for bedding, 

 By this manner of liberal feeding, warm shelter and beds in winter, 

 absolute cleanliness and careful watchfulness, I attribute not only 

 exemption from abortion, milk fever and other similar troubles of the 

 stock raiser, but have a certainty, from the products of the dairy, that 

 the work is remunerated by a balance on the right side of the ledger. 



YOUNG CATTLE. 



Q. You have said nothing as yet, Mr. Crozier, of your manner of 

 raising young stock. From the specimens I now see in your barns I 

 would like to know the method by which you have raised them to 

 such perfection. For it would certainly give great pleasure if every 

 one interested in stock raising could see that herd of deer-like 

 Jerseys, and I am persuaded that they would be convinced, as I am, 

 that you practice as well, and I think a little better, than you preach. 



A. I consider the primary reason for my success in raising young 

 cattle to be, that the mothers are kept in the very best possible 

 condition of health. This condition of health I believe is produced and 

 continued only by the systematic method of feeding and care that has 

 been here described and which I have practiced for years. Probably our 

 mode of winter feeding has more to do with this than anything else. 

 During the five years I have practiced this system, I have had suffi- 

 cient evidence to prove that a higher degree of health and vigor is im- 

 parted to the animals than can be hoped for when the process of steaming 

 the feed is followed. I had as fair success with the cows and calves 

 when using the steamed feed as I could well expect, but since I have 

 changed to my present system all the stock are more vigorous and 

 healthier than ever before. While using the steamed feed we found 



