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cobs ground in the feed will hurt the stomachs of the horses, although 

 they will do no harm to ruminating cattle. Other farmers, having 

 also long experience, say that the cobs will not harm any stomach, 

 but give no nom-ishment, though they call it a useless trouble for the 

 stomachs. May I venture to ask what is the opinion of the club ? 

 Will the cobs ground with the corn and fed to horses do any injury 

 and cause sickness to horses, or be a simple, useless ingredient in the 

 feed ? I should be much obliged for an answer, and perhaps others 

 might be interested. I believe in cut feed and mix it with this ground 

 corn meal." 



Mr. W. S. Carpenter. — I have a fact that will settle this question ; 

 A friend who keeps milch cows has practiced boiling cobs for his cows, 

 and he gets from every half bushel of boiled cobs four quarts of milk. 

 He is satisfied that it does pay to feed corn-cobs, if they are boiled 

 before feeding. 



Dr. Isaac P. Trimble. — There is no advantage in feeding corn-cobs 

 to domestic animals. _ \ 



Dr. J. V. C. Smith. — I must stand between my friends, and say that 

 the only advantage to arise from feeding cob meal is attributable to 

 the stimulus of the distension of the animal's stomach. The nutriment 

 derived from cobs is very dearly bought. Beyond the stimulus which 

 <jobs afford of distending the stomach, there is nothing gained by 

 feeding them. 



Berry Baskets* 



Mr. J. Gridley, Auburn, N. Y., exhibited a new style of berry 

 basket, very ingeniously made of wood without a nail, pin or glue, 

 which seemed to meet with much favor among fruit-growers, as fully 

 equal to anything in use. Each basket is made of wood veneering 

 about one-sixteenth of an inch in thickness, locked together at the 

 ends by an ingeniously made mortice and tenons in the same piece of 

 wood, bent in the form of a cheese hoop. The bottom is held in the 

 desired place by the stub-end of short and strong slivers on each side 

 of it, so that nothing but rough usage, sufficient to crush the basket, 

 will displace the bottom. And these beautiful little white-oak baskets, 

 nice enough for the president of the United States to eat mush and 

 milk out of, can be made, it is stated, for only one-fourth of a cent 

 each. 



Mr. P. T. Quinn. — I admire this basket, only there is no provision 

 made for ventilation. 



Mr. A. S. Fuller. — I would like to call Mr. Quinn's attention to 



