WINTEK MANAGEMENT OF STOCK. 



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Mr. Nathan Holden, of Shirley, has eight cows now 

 in milk which yield eight cans of milk per day. Feeds 

 out, besides hay, one quart of oil meal in swill, and one 

 quart of corn and cob meal per day to each cow. Barn 

 fifty-eight feet by thirty-eight. His cows are grade 

 Alderney, Durham and Native. Loam is drawn to the 

 barn in the Ml, and in the winter is spread for litter in 

 the cow stable, designing to have as much loam as there 

 may be of the droppings of the cattle, the whole is 

 shovelled into the cellar, which is capacious, when there 

 is much of a pile it is worked over and thrown back 

 into a heap, and carried to the field by sledding in th^ 

 last of winter. 



Feb. 4. Called upon Hon. Jabez Fisher, of Fitchburg ; 

 he being absent, his stock and management were made 

 known to us by his intelligent overseer. Stock consists 

 of three cows, one yearling heifer, one calf, one cosset, 

 one pair of mules and one horse. One of the cows is 

 Native, w^ith a trace of Durham; the rest are grade 

 Durham and Ayrshire. Feeds corn stalks or butts in the 

 morning. Cuts no feed this year, thinks cutting does 

 not pay. The second feeding in the morning at seven 

 or eight o'clock is with hay, third feeding wdth hay at 

 noon, hay again at milking time, afterwards corn fodder. 

 Gives a cow a peck of carrots per day, no meal until 

 about calving time ; then gives corn and cob and bean 

 meal, three bushels of ears of corn and one of beans 

 ground together, two quarts a day to a cow in warm 

 water. Cows and hens eat bean meal readily; horses, 

 mules and hogs will not. His bean and pea straw is 

 well saved and fed to cows, and is readily eaten. The 

 two mules take, besides hay, three quarts corn and cob 



