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market price of the diflerent kinds of fodder, it was decided 

 to buy food. A comparison of the tables with the price list 

 showed that carbo-hydrates would be furnished at much lower 

 rates in bog-meadow and salt-marsh hay than in good upland 

 hay, and that albuminoids were lowest in shorts and cotton 

 seed meal. A car load of shorts was bought at $16*per ton, 

 and four tons of cotton seed meal at $2() per ton. Meadow 

 hay was bought at $8 per ton, in stack on the meadow ; some 

 fine salt hay at $12 ; some early cut black grass at $16. For 

 two months our milch cows were fed a mixture of bog-meadow, 

 salt hay, and black grass, at an average cost of $12 per ton, 

 and our dry cows a mixture of bog-meadow and salt hay, at 

 an average cost of $10 per ton. Cows that were giving from 

 15 to 18 quarts of milk a day, were fed 8 lbs. of shorts, 

 6 lbs. of corn meal, and 4 lbs. of cotton seed meal each per 

 day. Cows that wefe giving less milk, had a smaller al- 

 lowance of grain. The dry cows had no grain or roots with 

 their $10 hay. I never have had cows give more milk than 

 they gave on that $12 hay, and the dry cows kept in good 

 condition ; our horses were fed the same hay, and did well on 

 it. Between two and three months there was no upland hay 

 in the barn. Towards spring meadow hay and good salt luiy 

 were scarce ; the roads were bad, and some baled hay was 

 bought ; it was not first quality, was over-ripe, and it did no 

 better than the other mixture, though it cost more. Late in 

 the spring I was in a neighbor's barn ; he had some river 

 meadow hay that he asked $15 a ton for, and some early cut 

 upland hay that he asked $25 for. He said, "the meadow 

 hay would do for dry stock, but there was no milk in it ; but 

 the upland hay would make milk." I told him I would take 

 a small load of the meadow hay. It weighed 1500 lbs. ; cost 

 $11.25. I fed it from the wagon, and fed no other hay while 

 it lasted, which was just one week. All the hay sixteen cows 

 and three horses had for one week was that 1500 lbs. of 

 meadow hay, and they had all they wanted of that kind of 

 hay. They produced $36 worth of milk from that $11.25 



