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of 3 pounds of fine middlings, 1 y 2 pounds of pea-meal, 1 ^ 

 pounds of oil-meal, and 10 pounds of cut hay, 16 pounds in all, 

 cooked together, he found produced as much as 24 pounds of 

 the same food fed in the same proportions, but not cooked. He 

 cooked hay and fodder for two hours, until the fibres became 

 soft, making thorough work of it. The expense of the work 

 will not warrant its being done for a small number of cows, as it 

 costs as much to cook for ten head as for thirty. He was con- 

 vinced that it would not pay to cook the food for a herd of less 

 than fifteen or twenty cows, and the larger the number, of 

 course, the greater the saving, which he and some others have 

 placed at full one-third in the amount of food used; 



The convention adjourned to meet at 7 130 p. m. the same day. 



