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cross, but probably to-day no cow is sought after more, or will 

 bring a better price than the Jersey. 



After all, much, rery much, depends on the way they are fed 

 and cared for. There are various ways of feeding ; one way is 

 to keep them as our fathers and grandfathers used to. Who 

 does not remember the old red cow (and there were some good 

 ones) standing out all day in the cold of mid-winter cringing to 

 the blast, on top of the manure heap, picking a few straws from 

 the bedding mixed with it; after being out to toughen through 

 the day, taken in at night and fed with coarse meadow hay, 

 which she would eat only because she could get nothing else , 

 turned out the next day, with perhaps a little of the same fresh 

 hay thrown on the snow in the yard because, as they said, she 

 would eat it better. And who does not remember how poor 

 these cows would come out in the Spring ? 



To such farmers the saying of the boy would apply, who 

 said that his father made money twice a year. He sold off his 

 English hay in the Fall, and the hides of the cattle in the Spring. 

 But thanks to progressive civilization very few are kept in that 

 way now. That is one extreme, and it seems to us there is 

 another, unnatural forcing, feeding them on highly concentrated 

 food to increase the flow of milk. Who does not know of many 

 cases of very superior cows who by being fed grain in too large 

 quantities have become affected with garget, and been sold to 

 the butcher, forced beyond all reason ? 



Now is there not a medium ground to take in regard to 

 feeding ? We do not want to expose our cows to the cold too 

 much, or keep them altogether on our coarse hay ; neither do 

 we want to pamper them or make hot house plants of them; but 

 rather give them good, warm shelter, nutritious food in reason- 

 able quantities; in short, carry not the forcing process too far 

 and we shall be the gainers in the long run. 

 Respectfully submitted, 



HENEY A. TURNER, for the Committee, 



