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calf's death, and put it on seperated milk to save the calf. The cow had lost 

 three calves before. 



Mr. Hostetter: You take the separated milk that has no flax in it at 

 all. I think the calves should have a little flax seed. 



Mr. Patten: I mix it. 



Mr. Hostetter: That may do. I use a little skim milk instead of water. 



Q. You speak about measuring the milk. The way to do is to weigh it- 

 Put your milk in and weigh it; for a young calf, eight pounds of milk at a 

 feed, and set your scales and put your milk right in, and you will find it the 

 most accurate way. There is another thing you ought to make much plain- 

 er, in the use of linseed meal, or ground oil cake. 



Mr. Hostetter: I don't use either; I use ground flax. The ground flax 

 is the flax ground' up, and a very small quantity should be fed. A teaspoon- 

 ful is enough at a feed. 



AMERICAN MAIZE PROPAGANDA. 



COL. CLARK E. CARR, OF GALESBURG. 



It has been thought that as the subject of maize, or Indian corn, as I 

 prefer to call it, is so closely connected with farm life, that it would be 

 proper for me to express some thoughts in which the association known as 

 the American Maize Propaganda is interested, and measures which this 

 association is taking in the interests of Indian corn. 



I am limited to half an hour in the talk that I make, and hope,, if I 

 should pass the bound, as I am liable to do when I get going, talk seven or 

 eight hours, that I will be notified an d stopped. 



I will say in commencing, I think it was in 1585 that Walter Raleigh car- 

 ried the first potatoes to England. For 200 years potatoes were scarcely eat- 



