is lucky enougli, or skilful enough, to select such a stock as the 

 thirteen on exhibition at Lynn, will increase his profits by just 

 as much as his cows produce more than the average. We 

 think too that it is more profitable to feed well^ as highly as 

 can be done without injury to the cows. 



We suppose that one principal purpose for which the cow 

 was created was to convert produce into milk, and the quality 

 and quantity will depend on the amount and quality of the 

 raw material furnished, and the capacity of the milk produc- 

 ing machinery of the cow. The relative value of the different 

 kinds of food for the production of milk is a matter about 

 which farmers differ, but it is one of great importance. If 

 grain is used, it is admitted that cows fed with chopped feed 

 will give more milk than if a like quantity is fed dry. 



Much, too, has been said recently about the system of 

 ensilage, and its advocates claim that the introduction of this 

 mode of keeping fodder will effect a revolution in the produc- 

 tion of milk. Probably too little is yet known about it to 

 enable us to judge whether or not the system is one worthy of 

 universal adoption. It is hard to see how an acre of green, 

 fodder, that will not keep twenty cows a month, if fed green 

 can by tliis method be made to keep them twice as long, and 

 we certainly cannot expect all that its advocates claim for it. 

 At the same time it is very likely that the system may be of 

 value, and that stock can be cheaply kept by preserving fodder 

 in that way. We hope some of our large farmers will try the 

 experiment thoroughly and make known results. 



After all, the production of milk, like almost every other 

 department of agriculture, is a business in which, at best, the 

 margin of profit is small. But by the skilful and judicious 

 selection of cows, good judgment in feeding, and proper care of 

 stock, the farmer may perhaps make this branch of his busi- 

 ness pay him as good a profit as any other. 



Jos. S, Howe, Sherman Nelson, Geo. M. Wonson, A. M. 

 Bod well, John C. Ropes. — Committee. 



