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WINTER MANAGEMENT OF STOCK. 



liorse fifteen weeks on a ton of hay, with two quarts of 

 corn and cob meal per day, in good condition, lorovided 

 lie ches no tuorJc. Mr. Chandler takes a colt as soon as 

 it is weaned, keeps it until it is four years old for one 

 hundred dollars. lie takes a heifer calf a day old and 

 keeps it until it has its first calf, both of which are then 

 returned, and he gets thirty dollars. When the heifer 

 is returned at two years old, with its calf, he gets good 

 pay ; if he has to keep her another year, it is rather 

 poor. The barn is seventy feet by thirt}^ Temporary 

 stalls are put up to accommodate new boarders, and 

 none are turned away. The manure is shovelled into 

 the barn cellar, where it is spread about and two hogs 

 work upon it. In the spring it is carted out and mixed 

 with an equal quantity of loam, laid in a mass two and 

 a half or three feet deep, worked over with a plow twice, 

 and after haying a part of it is spread upon his mowing, 

 twenty loads (five cords) to the acre, or if used for 

 corn, as a part of it is, it is at the rate of sixty loads to 

 the acre. When he plants corn he manures high, and 

 lays down to grass the next year, without manure ; his 

 object being to raise hay. 



We had the pleasure of calling upon Col. Whitney, 

 of Shirley, who very politely showed us his stock of 

 milch cows, fifteen in number, and informed us about 

 his '^ management." He feeds six times a day, twice 

 in the mornhig, twice at noon and twice at night. 

 Gives oil meal once a day made into swill with water. 

 Lets his clover stand until well ripened, and feeds it to 

 his cows. Gets at this time thirteen cans of milk per 

 day from his fifteen cows. Keeps them in the stable 

 all the time in winter, only letting them out to water. 



