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Feed Cutteks. 



Correspondent asks Tvhich is the best. 



Mr. E. Williams, Montclair, jST, J. — Xone of them are good for much. 



Mr. A. S. Fuller. — That's what I say. I give my horses long hay 

 and whole oats, and I will give the reason for it. Some time ago I 

 sent mv wagon to mill for a grist of provender. The miller is honest. 

 Oh yes, as honest as any man in the State of jSTew Jersey, and vdien 

 it came home there was one bag that had oats in it. I looked at those 

 oats. They were nothing in the world but oat chaiF; not kernels 

 enough in the bag to lunch a young gosling. I went to that miller 

 quick. Says I, do you call those things oats ? Is that what you grind 

 np with corn and sell it for provender ? Yes, sa;vs he, Mr. Fuller. I'll 

 be honest with you. I have to buy them kind of oats to make any- 

 thing on my provender. J^ow, Mr. Chairuian, that convinced me. 

 1^0 more provender and cut feed for A. S. Fuller. 



Mr. Solon Robinson. — I would like to see the man who will stand 

 up and sa}'- that he knows it does any good to cut hay for fodder. 



Dr. J. Y. C. Smith. — Mr. Chairman : The alimentary process is 

 very wonderful, and common people do not understand it. There 

 must be expansive pressure on the interior coats of the stomach and 

 entrails. A dog in a shipwreck lived twenty-one days on tlie lids of 

 a Bible. It was not any of Kit Burn's dogs either, but a common 

 cur. jN'ow what kept him alive ? JN^ot the leather alone. It lay in 

 his stomach and prevented the gastric juices from acting on the coats. 

 This proves that all hay cutters are bad. The best feed cutter is a 

 pair of strong jaws. 



Dr. Jarvis. — Mr. Chairman : We can never make true progress in 

 the art of fattening men and animals till we are fully impressed with 

 the immense importance of the process of deglutition. 



Dr. Trimble. — I indorse the ideas of my leanied confreres. Dr. 

 Smitli, in particular, I regard as eminently wise and sound in his 

 ideas of mastication, deglutition, and the subtle but marvellous 

 function of the pancreatic juices and the mesenteric glands. There- 

 fore, my voice is against hay cutters. 



Mr. P. T. Quinn. — Mr. Chairman : What would an English fiirmer 

 think were he to step into this club and liear us gravely discussing the 

 propriety of cutting food for animals ^ He would think that either 

 he or we had better go back to the farmer's alphabet. You call for 

 facts. Why, it was settled long ago, in England, after careful experi- 

 ments, that nineteen pounds of cut hay are equal to twenty-five 



