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of her own for making breads, and properly made, they 

 are all good, but good, plain bread can never be made out 

 of dry dough or with a slow heat. 



It is barely necessary to allude to the efficiency of meal 

 as a butter-maker. Fed to cows, one-half gallon twice daily, 

 dry, it will, with hay, bring down the milk in showers, and 

 the butter will be yellow and rich. Many dairymen in the 

 North have fed it alone for weeks without detriment to the 

 milk or condition of the cow, but she should never have 

 more tnan two quarts at a feed, and it should always be dry, as 

 if wet it will pass at once into the second stomach and not 

 be properly assimilated. Judge Owen, of New York, a 

 large dairyman, testifies to the value of this as a dairy food 

 in extravagant terms in the Agricultural Report of 1868. 



AS A HAY AND FORAGE CROP. 



It would appear that corn, as a hay and forage crop, be- 

 longs more especially to a work devoted to the grasses, and 

 in this respect the people of Tennessee do not appreciate its 

 importance. The dairymen of the IJorth have for years 

 been using it as a green food for their cows in that pecu- 

 liarly dry time of July and August, after the first pastures 

 have dried out, and before the fall pastures have become 

 green from the latter rains. 



We have seen already the vast amount of forage in the 

 form of fodder, tops and stalks, that can be saved from one 

 acre of corn. No one can imagine the amount of waste in 

 this respect every year in our State. Mr. Mechi, the most 

 eminent farmer in England, or the world, estimates every 

 ton of corn fodder, which includes stalks, husks and leaves 

 to be worth ten dollars per ton. He also estimates one ton 

 of fodder to every forty bushels of grain. The total crop 

 of Tennessee in 1876, our last published report, was 54,500,- 

 000 bushels, which would make 1,365,500 tons of good 

 fodder, this, at one-half of Mr. Mechi's estimated value 

 would be 16,812,500! How much of this is lost by sheer 



