388 Transactioxs of the American Institute. 



. October 20, 1868. 



Mr. Nathak C. Ely, in the chair ; Mr. John W. CHiiMBERS, Secretary, 



Cut Feed. 



Mr. J. W. Colbniy, Springfield, Yt., writes that lie has fed two 



horses kept for gene]-al work, on cut hay, for ten years. The hay is 

 Bprinkled mostly with corn meal, and is stiired so as to have the meal 

 adliere, and he knows that by this means the hay wjlll go twice as far, 

 and that the team will do full as much work. Sometimes, if hay is 

 scarce, bright oat straw can be siibstitnted by adding a little more 

 meal, or by making the feed half-and-half. In warm weather when 

 the boxes are apt to som-, Vvdiole hay is fed and then the difference is 

 noted. 



Mr. N. C. Meeker, — I was not here when that discussion took place 

 but was interested in reading a report of it, which was skillful and 

 engaging. The idea I would now suggest, is that the question of 

 cutting liay, hinges on its cost. In the west, where hay is cheap and 

 farm labor difficult to be obtained, it will not do to manage these 

 matters as farmers do near great cities. The money paid for a cutter 

 and a man to nse it, would buy all the hay saved in some parts of 

 the country. The animals consumed in these commercial centers 

 were not fattened on cut feed. 



Dr. Isaac P. Trimble. — By recommending cut feed we may encour- 

 age the putting up of bad hay, I, myself, have seen of late an 

 establishment for the preparation of cut hay on a large scale, when 

 the quality of the hay was execrable. It could not be sold at all as 

 long fodder, but cut up and baled it is palmed off on a crediilous 

 public. 



Mr. P. T. Quinn.— Since that discussion I have talked with men 

 who are deeply interested in knowing the cheapest and best way of 

 feeding animals, the proprietors of these lines of horse cars, and they 

 all tell me that no mode of treatment will compare with three feeds 

 a day of cut hay, wet and sprinkled with corn meal. After many 

 experiments, they have settled upon this as the cheapest for them- 

 selves, and the best for the animals, 



Mr. A. Stone, Long Island. — I find it far better on my farm to cut 

 my fodder. My animals will eat, and will thrive on coarse grasses 

 and straw when cut up, which they would refuse if fed out long. I 

 am not a doctor, and can't talk as these doctors do, about deglutition, 



