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other things, cut the largest corn, ears and all—costing about 
$30, an additional cost of about $40, will add a one horse 
power that will be of ample capacity for a farm of two or three 
hundred acres. I also would have all the straw as carefully 
saved by housing or stacking as the hay, and ail the corn cut 
and nicely stacked before f.ost comes ; also some oats, as well 
as any of the other kinds of grain, rye, wheat, <kc., that would 
be unsalable if threshed, kept without threshing, for the pur¬ 
pose of cutting up. The whole of the above to go through the 
cutting box. mixed with roots, corn and meal, more or less ac¬ 
cording to time of year, and to what it is to be fed ; following 
the same process as before mentioned until the refuse or leav¬ 
ings shall all be consumed by the most hardy barn yard stock. 
To the above it will only be necessary to add and mix in meal 
to the amount of the grain ordinarily used to latten and keep 
the animals in good flesh. A stack of oats can be cut up for 
feeding by hand power as cheap as it can be threshed with a 
machine, and with the addition of a little meal, is entirely eat¬ 
en up. Still, an additional amount of animals can be kept by 
applying steam to the above-mentioned compound of cut feed, 
as has been already proved by many farmers in this state, and 
in other places. It is easy to see that the above process will 
require winter work, and it has already been proved that it 
will pay; and here is just where the profit comes from, viz : 
the using up of this coarse fodder, that would otherwise have 
been lost, or nearly so. 
Hauling manure in winter can be practiced much more ex¬ 
tensively than people generally imagine, provided there is help 
ready at the time to do it. One will say, “ Manure should not 
be hauled till well rotted in the yards.'' Another will say, 
“No place to put it, in the winter."' In answer to the first, I 
will say, haul every day, or as fast as made if practicable, as 
the first years’ benefit is fully lost if left in unsheltered places, 
exposed during the summer to drenching rains and evapora¬ 
tion. For some crops, and on some land, I think the products 
are doubled the first year. On tolerable sized farms, well 
stocked, and where the cattle are stabled, as they ought toh~ 
