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clover hay or roots. They have not eaten five hundred weight of 

 meal in their lives. 



I stable them the year round at night, and during stormy weather. 



Respectfully yours, 



• W. I. TOWNSEND. 



WORKING OXEN. 



The working oxen exhibited by me at the Cattle Show, were a 

 cross of the Devon and native stock, five years old; during the sum- 

 mer they are fed in pasture, in the winter they are stabled and fed 

 on corn stalks and salt hay, with a peck of brewer's grains per day 

 each. They are used at all kinds of farming work, and considerably 

 on the road. 



MULES. 



My mules are kept in the stable most part of the year. I use 

 them constantly in winter and summer, at work of all kinds. In 

 spring and summer they are worked hard for farming purposes, and 

 in fall and winter, kept constantly on the road, drawing feed from 

 New-York. I feed them upon English hay and cut feed in summer, 

 and salt hay with cut feed in winter; never stinted in quantity. 



Respectfully youi s, 



DAVID P. MILLS. 

 JVewtown, L. L, JS'^ov., 1846. 



FAT OXEN. 



Milford, Conn., JVov. 20th, 1846. 



Sir: — Your notice of a premium awarded me for the best, fat oxen, 

 has been received. 



My (9xen were four years old in April, 1846. They are a cross of 

 the native and Devonshire breed; about three-fourths native and one- 

 fourth Devon. 



I commenced fiittening them when three years and ten months old. 

 They were fattened almost wholly on grass, except' being fed on 



