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WINTER MANAGEMENT OF STOCK. 



meal together per daj^, no more. Has five hogs, one of 

 them is a Suffolk boar; feeds them with swill night and 

 morning, and with ears of corn at noon. Keeps eighty 

 hens, gives them a pailful of bean, corn and cub meal, 

 and four quarts of corn daily. The barn cellar is made 

 waterrtight, receives the droppings from the stalls, solid 

 and liquid ; water is pumped in, and the manure is 

 applied in a lic[uid state, carted out in a sort of cask 

 with wheels attached, and used by means of a flexible 

 tube. 



We next called upon Mr. B. Safford, of Fitchburg. 

 His stock consists of three cows, two milch heifers 

 coming three years old, two heifers two years coming, 

 not yet in milk, two cossets, hens and turkeys. Feeds 

 five times a day, viz: twice in the morning, once at noon 

 and twice at night. First in the morning, corn fodder ; 

 second, hay ; corn fodder at noon, corn fodder first at 

 night, hay last. Gives no grain in winter. Gets now 

 from two cows one can of milk a day, His cows are let 

 out during the forenoon in pleasant weath3r, when cold 

 are kept in. His wav of curinfr his clover is to mow it 

 in the morning after the dew has dried off^ let it lie in 

 the swath until three or four o'clock, P. M., turns it, on 

 the next day before noon pitches it into cocks and puts 

 on the caps; after two or three days turns the cocks 

 bottom upvv\ards, and after a day or two more carts in 

 and mows away, with a little salt Salts all his hay 

 when he puts it in the barn. Cuts his corn butts, 

 nothing else, except for the horse when worked. Cows 

 eat readily corn stalks that are black and mouldy, 

 when they will reject those that are well dried, fresh 

 and brig-ht. 



