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were fed with food, prepared as above, and allowed to cool before it 

 was fed, and the cows were turned out into the yard to drink cold 

 wa'.er, where they remained some two or three hours, morning and 

 evening, in the cold air, (the weather being very cold,) the food was 

 given in the stables, and the cows remained in all night. The milt 

 was carefully measured for one week, and the amount of feed given 

 noted. The succeeding week the same amount of feed prepared in 

 the same manner was given warm, the stable temperature was kept 

 above freezing, and the chill taken off the water, the cows being con- 

 stantly kept in the stables, and the water carried to them. The result 

 was, that there was an average gain or increase in the amount of milk 

 secreted of about one pint per diem for each cow, or nine pints, which, 

 at five cents per quart, amounts to twenty-two and a half cents per 

 day, which will leave a nett profit in favor of the warm stable, food, 

 and drink, of about thirteen cents per day on the nine cows, or about 

 $4 per month, which is the usual wages paid a common laborer in 

 winter in this region. Besides this advantage the cows were much 

 more comfortable, and the labor of turning them out to the yard and 

 putting them up again, was more than that of carrying the water to 

 them, as they required but little, being fed with moist (steamed) food, 

 about one-third of which was turnips, which are well known to be 

 yery succulent. 



We have also fed our swine with warm swill during the past win- 

 ter, in which we have found a decided advantage. 



The above are extracts from the journal of the Mount Airy Agri- 

 cultural Institute. 



JOHN WILKINSON, Principal. 

 Germantoivn, Pa., March, 1849. 



GEOLOGICAL TOUR IN THE STATE OF NEW-YORK. 



BY E. MERIAM OF BROOKLYN, L. 1. 



John TV. Chambers^ Esq. Act. Sec. Am. Institute. 



Dear Sir — During the autumn of 1848 I made several geological 

 and meteorological tours, in various sections of the State of New- 

 York, during which I saw much, the record of which I think will be 

 both interesting and useful to the public. 



