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rangus Co., N. Y., kept thirty cows on one hun-lred acres 

 of land for seven years, as pasture; then he mowed his 

 land and fed his cows, when he found that he made eight 

 hundred dollars per year more when he fed than when he pas- 

 tured; thought the same number of cows could be made to 

 yield double when fed, therefore he now argued to keep less 

 land and more cows. 



Thomas Bishop: If a cow gives five gallons per day 

 on grass, will she give ten if fed on hay ? He had found 

 that cows coming in in September done much better than 

 cows which come in ia April; i. e., for the year. Kept a 

 few cows and kept them well; could get more from a few 

 well-kept cows th^n from many more poorly cared for. 



John R. McLean expected that those who preceded 

 him would exhaust the subject, but found they had left a 

 good deal for him to say. Was a small dairymen but a 

 very early one; i. e., he began a great many years ago; he 

 kept eighteen cows on his one hundred acres of land; 

 raised a little of everything; rye, corn, oats, potatoes, etc. 

 Was ready for reverses. Wanted to come out square each 

 year. Kept the farm to "fall back on." Thought it the 

 safest way to keep no more cows than the farm would sup- 

 port; could keep twenty -five just as well as eighteen; had 

 plenty to keep them on; kept six horses; had no use for 

 them only to pay taxes on; thought every dairyman 

 should raise his calves, or at least enough each year to 

 keep up his dairy. Raised six hundred bushels of oats. 

 Could seM his straw for four dollars per load. His farm 

 was now rented, and he could not tell exactly what was 

 djone. 



I. Boies : How did you find the market when you first 

 began ? ' 



Mc Lean: I received ten cents the first year, per gal- 

 lun; the next year five and one-half cents; in 1861 five and 

 three-fourths cents; in 1862 six cents per gallon; in the fall 



