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Wliatever may bo the kind of food used for the feeding of 

 cattle, of this we feel confident, that it should not be sparingly 

 used. Feed fall, or not at all, is our motto. It is the worst 

 possible economy to scrimp the feed of cattle, or to attempt to 

 impose upon them a kind of food of ordinary or mean quality. 

 How much time is annually wasted in gathering in the coarser 

 grasses from the meadows, and forcing them down the gullets 

 of animals, when their knees have hardly strength sufficient 

 to support their emaciated bodies ! If such kind of feed is 

 to be used at all, it should be chopped and mixed with some- 

 thing nutritive, so that the animal may strengthen and thrive 

 thereby. He that withholds from his beasts any portion of a 

 full and generous feed, whatever may be the use he contem- 

 plates to make of them, in the same proportion diminishes his 

 own income. 



J. W. PROCTOR, 

 H. WARE, .Tr., 

 JOSEPH HOW, 



Committee. 



Grain Crops. 



Only one entry has been made for raising grain, and that by 

 John Hathaway, of Danvers, for a crop of winter rye, of an 

 extraordinary yield. Mr. Hathaway's statement is very full, as 

 to his manner of manuring, preparing, and cultivating his lands 

 for the previous crops, and also for the present crop of winter 

 rye. It will be seen that he has raised, on one and a quarter 

 acre of land, 55 bushels, equal to 44 bushels to the acre. 

 This is the largest crop of rye, to the acre, that has come within 

 the knowledge of the committee. 



As Mr. Hathaway has spared no pains in preparing his land 

 for a good crop, the committee are happy to find that he has 

 been amply paid for his labor, by reaping an abundant harvest, 

 and recommend the premium of eight dollars to be paid to him 

 for his crop of winter rye. 



His crop of summer rye is also a very large yield, 45 bushels 



