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My herd contains thirteen, and part of tlie year fourteen 

 cows, of which number two have been dry, as I arrange it 

 so that an average amount of milk will be produced at all 

 times of the year. The cows are fair native stock, bought 

 for service, a few of them showing a trace of Ayrshire and 

 Jeisey blood. J have bouglit two cows during the year and 

 sold an equal number. 



The feed for the summer has consisted of pasture with a 

 light feed morning and night of hay or corn fudder, and 

 one quart of corn meal and one quart of cotton seed meal 

 to eacli cow. About Nov. 1st the cows were taken up for 

 the winter and the following plan was adopted for the sea- 

 son. The cows were milked at 5.30 and immediately after 

 were fed a light feed of salt hay probably five or six lbs. 

 each; half an hour later they were fed twenty pounds of 

 ensilage each, on which was placed a shovel full of wet 

 brewers screenings; at 11 o'clock they were watered, once 

 a day being all that they would drink, water being supplied 

 in the barn, and if cold or stormy they did not go out of 

 doors at all ; if pleasant, however, they were allowed to 

 remain out a short time, after v/hich they were tied up and 

 allowed to remain quiet until 4 P. M., giving ample time 

 for them to digest their morning meal. At 4 o'clock, six 

 or seven pounds of hungarian, cut dry stocks or meadow 

 hay was fed, changing every day or two from one to the 

 other, to give more variety to the feed, and at 5 o'clock 

 they were milked, after which another feed of twenty 

 pounds ensilage each was given on which one quart of 

 meal, one quart of cotton seed and a shovel full of wet 

 screening was placed, and the barn was shut up for the 

 night. 



From the above you will sec that my system of feeding 

 is very simple, in reality but two feeds a day being given, 

 leaving a long time for the food to be digested. My stable 

 never freezes ; while a row of large windows on the south 



