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Mr. Lodge — Carrot is an excellent change of food for cattle, even 

 during the summer. And I have exhibited carrots here on the first 

 day of June. The carrot is an object of great interest to our coun- 

 try. 



Judge Van Wyck — No soiling plan can give us such milk as we 

 obtain from cows on the open pasture. I never visit the country 

 without perceiving both by taste and smell, the wide difference be- 

 tween the milk of stalled or soiled cows, and the pure delicious milk 

 of the country pastures. 



Mr. Lodge — I offer the following method for fattening hogs. Put 

 the ground corn or grain in a vat or barrel; let it remain until it 

 begins to turn sour; give it to the hogs with sufficient water, and it 

 will fatten them faster than any way that I know of. 



Professor Mapes — This receipt of Mr. Lodge's is a good one. 

 Mr. Wilson of Brooklyn, has tried it on the large ox. He has used 

 the swill from a distillery fed with shorts, which mixture he suffers 

 to become a little sour before he gives it to the ox. This feed di- 

 gests easily. 



Mr. Wakeman asks Mr. Lodge, what proportion of the cobs should 

 be ground up with the corn? 



Mr. Lodge — It is common to begin feeding hogs with corn and 

 the cob ground fine; and as he goes on to fatten, to diminish the pro- 

 portion of the cobs; to let the feed sour a little in vats or barrels. 



Judge Van Wyck — Is there a great difference in breeds of cows 

 as to their milk? 



Mr. Lodge — Alderney and Devons give the best milk. 



Mr. Wakeman — There is a great difference in the milk of cows of 

 the same breed, and withihe same treatment, almost double the quan- 

 tity of milk, equally good. 



Mr. Lodge — So there is — but I prefer good quality in milk to 

 quantity. I have known cows whose one gallon of milk was to be 

 preferred to the six quarts of another. 



Judge Van Wyck — But we have as fine milkers as ever were 

 known, whose breeds were unknown. 



