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BEST MODE OF FEEDING CATTLE. 



Mr. Nash was in favor of cut feed. He was sustained by Mr. 

 Carpenter and Mr. Madison. 



Mr. Gale was opposed to cut feed as unnatural ; God furnish- 

 ing no cutting machines other than the teeth of the animal, the 

 teeth being the best cutting machines. 



Mr. Carpenter. — The ox and man diifered in this ; aa the ox 

 had two stomachs, he found great advantage from cutting the 

 food for cattle. 



Mr. Cavanach. — The stage proprietors would not cut the food 

 for their horses, if they did not find an advantage from it. 



Mr. Carpenter. — If you can convert more food by cutting, 

 which is the fact, as there was no waste as was the case in feed- 

 ing long feed. 



Mr. Bergen. — I feed in the okl-fashioned way ; the hay in the 

 rack, and the corn on the cob. 



Mr. Madison. — It pays best to cut the feed. 



Mr. Fuller. — The great secret of cut feed consisted in the meal, 

 &c. that is added, not in the cutting. 



Mr. Nash.— Hay was the dearest feed in this country. In the 

 far west, where the cattle can pick a portion of their living in 

 winter ; but here they may be kept on poorer hay, with some- 

 thing that is good and stimulating in addition. 



A committee was appointed to examine the Cataract Washing 

 Machine, consisting of Prof. Nash, Mr. Adrian Bergen and Mr. 

 Cavanach. 



Adjourned to the second Monday in January. 



JOHN BRUCE, Secretary pro tern. 



January *7, 1861. 

 Present, 63 members. Mr. Robert L. Pell in the chair. 

 The following translations and extracts from Judge Meigs, 

 were read : 



[Journal de la Socicte Iraperiale et Centrale d'HortieuUure. Paris, Sept., I860.] 

 THE INSECT POWDER. 



On mature investigation, it seems that the accounts of the 

 plant producing it and the land of its origin and growth have 

 been mistaken. Introduced by Willemot as the '' Pyrethrum of 

 Caucasus,^' but now proves to be the '' Pyret/irum Cinerarifolium'^ 



