104 



Qaaiitity of Milk for the two weeks, 513 1-2 quarts 



Cost of feeding three cows two weeks on rye meal, $3 15 

 750 bis. English hay, 75 per hundred, 562 1-2 



140 " Salt " 50 " " 70 00 632 1-2 



947 1-2 



Quantity of milk for the two weeks, 4?4 quarts 



It Avill be seen from the above experiment that Indian 

 meal possesses the highest value for producing milk, differ- 

 ing however but little from oil meal. 



Many farmers object to the free use of grain of any kind, 

 believing such feed to be too stimulating. But my exper- 

 ience is otherwise. I have twelve cows which for the last 

 five years have dropped their calves in the fall of the year, 

 and have been fed during the winter and spring, till they went 

 to pasture, with as much meal or shorts as were used in the 

 above trials, and Avere uniformly in as good health and bet- 

 ter condition than a like number that dropped their calves in 

 the spring, and had no grain of any kind during the year. 



It should have been stated above, that my cows are kept 

 in a tight barn, sufficiently ventilated during the days and 

 nights, except when they are turned out to water about 

 nine o'clock A. M. and four o'clock P. M. when they remain 

 out about twenty minutes each time. 



William F. Porter, Chairman. 



GRAIN CROPS. 



The Committee on Grain Crops report: 



That ihe whole number of entries were six ; namely, one of 

 barley, two of rye, two of corn and one of mixed crop. The 

 season having been so favorable for the growth and maturing of 

 the corn crop, it was with some surprise that the committee found 



