ON MILCH COWS AND HEIFERS. 47 



son the grass is too much dried up. At these sea- 

 sons some cultivated roots should be in readiness to 

 supply the deficiency. Various kinds of roots and 

 cultivated vegetables have been used ; carrots, rata 

 baga, mangel wurtzel, sugar beet, and green corn 

 fodder, planted for the purpose, or top-stalks and 

 pumpkins, are all very good, and we do not think 

 there is much difference. Turnips, though eagerly 

 eaten, have not been thought to be quite as good. 

 We say that we believe the farmer will be amply 

 paid for the extra trouble of providing some kind of 

 succulent food for his milch cows in dry seasons. 

 We have noticed that when only one cow has been 

 kept, by the individual offering for premium, they 

 have most generally obtained the Society's premium, 

 and we attribute this to the more particular attention 

 given to feeding one cow, than is commonly given to 

 many. 



My own experience is not much, but I have no- 

 ticed that when I kept only one cow we made as 

 much butter, twelve pounds a week, as when I have 

 kept two, and one of the cows being the same and 

 running in the same pasture. If we did not misun- 

 derstand the commissioner, Mr. Column, the cow for 

 which $200 was paid, yielded the year previous to 

 sale, within 25 quarts of 200 dollars worth of milk, 

 at five cents a quart, sold at the door ; and the cost 

 of keeping the cow was eighty-seven dollars for 

 one year. Now if such an extraordinary produce 

 may be obtained from one cow only, may not cows 

 in general be made to yield much more than they 

 now do, and would it not be economy to give to the 



