On Feeding Cows

At a reeent farmers' convention th qucstion of feeding eows all the yea rouud w:i8 discussed, and one gentleman spoke to the point, howiug up the mat ter by facts mid figures us follows : Qood food and plenty of it, is necees S'iry, iu oider to have cows do well Wbeu cows are comiog in the last o March or the first of April, foedin ehould cofumenoe as soon as the middle of Mareh, at least. Frora l'our to s:x qusrts of corn anc oatmoal, one qu:ut of oilmeal, and eih iju.irts of wheat rye bran (rje is bost) makea a gnod feed. Tliis sliou'.d be fee uutil the middle of iMiy, when, if grass is plenty, the meal may be droppod off nud about iwelve quarts of brau fed pei di}r, up to the lst of Januarv, or unti tlio cow is dry. Corn, I considcr one o tho very best articles of food fcr the co.w. lt should bit sowt'd or drilled in and ns soon as the pastures begin to dry or fail, comtuence to feed it, aud continuo to feed until the frost comen. It ia then time for the field corn lo be cut aat shoeked. Thia should be fed from the hoek until the cows are dry. It pays botter to foed it in this way tlian in any other, and when the onws are dry they will be füt, atid can be wibtered on al most any kind of lodder, and will hok íbeir fV'sh. Tne oost of feediog cows in this way will be 825 per head, and they wil] yield, certaiuly, two hundred pomids more c'neese per head than without fecd Tben, tor), the value of the cows (by feeding), either to winter or to put into the iiiaikct, will be iucreased by at least ten dolUrs per head. And moro tlian tliis, one-fourth more oows can, by feeding, be kopt on the same pasture iban coulrï be kept if nothing but gras is fed, while, by feeding, many tous of valuable feed go on the farm as manare. But d'jes it pay ? Wo wül soe whether it dci or Dot. Tuke, if you please, thirtytwo cows with uo fued but grass. Each cow will yield aboit four hundred pouuds ol oheesj. That attwelveaod a half cents per pound will bring 81.C00. Forty cows, with feed, can be kept on tho Hamo pasture as thirty two without foed, and will yield ei.t huodred pound of dietse each, which at twelve and a lulf cents per pound will amouut to 8ïi,000. The cost of fieed, $25 per head, will mou'.it to 1,000. The interest on eight extra cots will be about $G per head, or $48, which, with the cost of feed, is to be deducted from the amount received for cheese, which is 3,000. This lenvts a prorit of 81,&25. Then. by feeding, the cows are worth $0 per head more, making $100 to be added to the profita. This gives $12,302. Nówj by takiug the difFerenco betreet" the amouut made from forty cows by feeding, and from thirty two cows on the pasture wil bout extra feed, we find it leaves a balance of 655 in favur of feeding.