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Mr. Bergen had occasion to complain of some of his boundary 

 neighbors, in this, that while their roots and their branches were 

 in and on his land, they denied him the privilege of the fruit, or 

 that of meddling with their trees at all. He had gently stated to 

 them the evil, but they utterly ignored it I 



Dr. Waterbury said, that whatever had been necessary here- 

 tofore in the youth of our nation, the time had now arrived when 

 our twenty-five to thirty millions of men should quit the poor 

 and costly system of fences, hold up all their injurious stock, and 

 leave our lovely landscapes unfenced and unfouled. It is now 

 our duty and for our profit that we should control all our stock 

 and provide for them in inclosed pastures, yards, shelters, barns, 

 &c. Economy in feed and everything demand it. 



Mr. Lawton formerly fed his stock with hay uncut, but now he 

 cuts it, and finds a great saving, as all of it is consumed, and 

 moreover, his cows give him more milk. Hay is $20 per ton ! 

 We must be economical with it. Add bran occasionally, and 

 some of the roots. Clean up the stalls three times a day. It will 

 pay for the trouble. 



A member. — It is a great profit to cut hay short for stock. Mr. 

 Van Houghton, of Paterson, New Jersey, feeds twenty eight head 

 of cows six or seven times a day. Roots in the morning, ground 

 peas, chopt hay. The cows eat it all up. Stable kept clean, so 

 that they eat it on the floor. This is the great secret for milk, 

 and for the health of the animals. The root part of their diet is 

 very important. 



Mr. Lawton.' — I give turnips, carrots and parsnips. 



Dr. Wellington was well satisfied, from his observation, that a 

 man who will give his creature ten carrots a day, will find the 

 advantage so great that next year he will not fiiil to grow a crop 

 of the carrots. 



One of the subjects of the day is liquid manures. I will speak 

 of some experience on that point. I have observed a farmer 

 making his manure yard to hold liquid manures, filling it with 

 all sorts of material from the farm, and directing all the urine of 

 his stock to be absorbed by the materials, and that there might 

 not be too much rain water, he trenched around it so as to carry 



