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as the other cows which lay in good rowen feed, and it did not dry 

 up her milk, as farmers generally suppose it will. If a cow eats 

 her fill of apples, it checks her milk, and so it will if she eats her 

 fill of grain, and overeating grain sometimes causes death, yet 

 cows might do well on apples after being accustomed to eat them, 

 even by lying in an orchard and eating as many as they wish ; if 

 cows are allowed to take their fill of pomace at first, it may check 

 their milk, and make ihem stagger ; it is the distention of the sto- 

 mach, rather than the injurious effects of the apple or pomace, 

 that checks the milk. I have never wasted any pomace since my 

 experiment, when I have owned a cider-mill, but in the year 1794 

 I sold my place and bought another farm, and had no cider-mill 

 for many years, but the trouble of going a mile to make cider, loss 

 of the pomace, and paying for the use of the mill, induced me to 

 build one near my house, where two men could easily roll a hogs- 

 head of cider from the mill into the cellar. 



No pomace has been sutfered to lie near the mill since it was 

 built ; we place a cart close to the press, and throw in the pomace 

 and carry it away and spread it for cattle to eat, throwing a little 

 to the hogs, (which is but very little more labor than to carry it by 

 hand two rods, and throw it in a heap,) and the cattle will eat the 

 pomace, and the apple seeds which scatter, are picked up by the 

 fowls. 



I like this practice better than to have a heap of stinking pomace 

 near the mill, which is not worth carrying away. If you have 

 more pomace than your cattle will eat, you can dry it, house it, 

 and feed it out in winter ; it will be saving hay. 1 have told many 

 farmers of my practice, who feed out pomace in the same way ; 

 and if I have published something like it before, the reader will 

 excuse me for having it printed again, when we are sensible that 

 many people read very superficially, and most people are apt to 

 think their own method is the best, and it becomes necessary to 

 give precept upon precept ; but I have no motive but public 

 utility. 



I have also published how to make cider, but people like their 

 own mode best, although Newark cider sells in New- York for four 

 or five times as much as that which is made in New-England ; and 

 I think it is wrong to have the Yankees so much outdone : but 

 making cider is nearly done with for this year. I hope that some 

 more of our farmers will, at least, feed out a little pomace for a 

 trial, against next year. A Farmer. 



[From the New-England Farmer.] 

 POMACE. 

 Mr. Fessenden, — Seeing in your paper of the 16th of Novem- 

 ber, an article relative to the disposal of apple pomace, which, 

 from my own experience, I think incorrect, I have thought proper 

 to offer a few remarks on this subject. 



I have for eight years past made from 150 to 300 barrels of cider 

 annually, and have disposed of my pomace in the following man- 



