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record of thirteen cows for the last year showed an 

 average of G,300 jjounds to each cow. 



The Demming farm, near the cit}^ of Auburn, has 

 been managed for many yearrf by A. D. Murdock. It 

 > contains sometliing over three hundred acres. There 

 are usually fifty or sixty acres in wheat and about forty 

 acres field corn, besides other graiu. About sixty cows 

 in milk are usually kejDt on this farm. Mr. Murdock 

 uses no ensilage, but, with steam power on the farm, 

 cuts and grinds all his own feed. The winter feed of his 

 cows is in substance as follows : A bushel of cut corn- 

 stalks night and morning, with about seven quarts of the 

 mixture of tw^o busliels barley sj)routs, six bushels bran,* 

 two bushels middlings or corn meal, all thoroughly mixed 

 together. In winter the cows are out from one to two 

 hours, when the day is pleasant, for exercise.- The 

 cows are sometimes kept in the stable for three weeks 

 at a time in stormy weather without aj^parent injury. 

 They are watered in the stable from a trough con- 

 veniently arranged in front of them. In summer they 

 are pastured, and when the pastures become dry and the 

 feed scanty they receive a supplement of some green-cut 

 fodder. The stock of cattle on this farm is replenished 

 by raising the calves. 



On the farm of Charles E. Benton, near Utica, con- 

 taining 130 acres, forty cows are kept, which in winter 

 are fed hay, brewers' grains, shorts and meal, in the pro- 

 portion of one-third bushel of grains to four quarts of 

 shorts and two quarts of corn meal mixed, with a little 

 salt added. When grains are not obtainable, roots are 

 fed. In summer they are kept in pasture, and fed twice 

 each day brewers' grains and green-cut clover or corn. 



On the farm of Dr. L. L. Wight, of Wliitesboro, are 

 kept about fifty cows. A specialty of this farm is to 

 supply milk in winter, the cows dropping their calves 

 late in the autumn. The food is a bushel, of corn 



