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fodder to go back to long. If a farmer finds, as hundreds have, that 

 ten pounds of cut hay goes as far as fifteen fed long, that fifty pounds 

 of ground and cooked corn is as nourishing as seyenty-five fed from 

 the cob, a lecture on stomachs and glands will not convert him. 



Mr. Cornell of ISTew Jersey. — One gentleman referred to the 

 diiference between wild and tame meat. It so happens that we have 

 just been fighting a malady that started among animals as wild, 

 almost, as deer. The Texas beef we know is not as tender or as 

 juicy as the loin of our well-housed, stall-fed beasts. We often hear 

 high praises of semi-barbarous tribes and half-civilized usages ; but 

 in a collision of i-aces and forces, the more cultivated generally carries 

 the day. The more advanced a people become, the finer is their 

 stock, and the more care and labor is bestowed on their food. 

 Hiram Woodruff, for instance, when he wanted speed from an animal, 

 fed liim on hay from which every spear of trash had been culled by 

 his own hands. Dr. Smith speaks of slow digestion as necessary for 

 longevity. May I remind him that the lion, the king of brutes, and 

 among the longest-lived, bolts his food almost whole. 



Mr. Thomas Cavanagh. — Can we not go to the omnibus and street 

 car stables for a lesson? They would not follow a practice unless 

 they knew it to be sound ; and, without exception, aU these thousands 

 of horses are fed on cut hay. Some of those horses are thirty years 

 old, and for a generation have worked exerj day, and thriven all this 

 time on what is here denounced as unnatural and unwholesome. 



Feuit from Iowa. 



The secretary placed on the table some very choice samples of fruit 

 from D. W. Adams, Secretary of Iowa Horticultural Society, and 

 read the following letter : 



Iowa State Horticultukal Society, \ 



Secketakt's Office, V 



Weehawken, Iowa, Janitary, 1869. ) 



American Institute Farmers* Chib, Weio TorTc: 



At the request of Iowa State Horticultural Society I, to-day, send 

 by express (charges prepaid) a few samples of Iowa-grown fruit. 

 These specimens were gathered early in September, and consequently 

 were not so liighly colored as our fruits usually are ; otherwise they 

 are thouglit to be very creditable to the capabilities of Iowa as a fruit- 

 growing State. As you see them, they also labor under the disadvan - 



