Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1889-05-17
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Cooked Food fer stock---IlRssR ehusetts
Hoard OF Agriculture ~. she Farm
ers' club of New York.

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Hoard OF Agriculture ~. she Farm
ers' club of New York.
About twenty years ago the cooking OF
food for cattle and horses was a fashionable
hobby of many agricultural writers, and
not few farmers were induced to fit up
expensive apparatu, for steamiug hay and
cooking vegetables 1t was declared 10y
high scientific authority that this was the
only way in which live stock could be most
economically fed But a few years Of trial
iu keeping cattle ON cooked food caused the
practice to bee abandoned in almost every
instance Recent experiments tend To
show that IN general cattle do not thrive
aS well upon cooked food a upon food tax
cu in the usual and more natural condition.
We quote below from an article Oh this
question which appeared in the Practical
Farmer 20 year, ago. 1t is a severe crit
cism of one whom the authorities failed to
convince that food for stock should be
cooked and Of the American Institute
farmers club of New York for presuming
touuestion a matter, which the writer seem.
ed to believe could only be done 10y very
ignorant people, not aware of the opinion
of Prof. Agassiz and of the Massachusetts
b,ard of nl-riculture The article has "A
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e"uIS'9 are l." H'aAe MISTAKES Ill Praculcai
matters and how extremely confident
man may become about matters which are
doubtful The use of the word undigniied
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'II'''''e" may "e com l'''i'"I error aS
may also he some OF the ungrammatcal
phrases of the critic Here is the article
Attn lat, meeting of that extensiveIv al
yerti..1 mutual admiration" debating So.
.i.t,. known as the American Institute far
NOR. ,.l,,I, ,f Nav. N,rl II VA. sssart,l ~,
usuaI scb,,l-bo, stvl,. of its membars
tbot cooking food for Stock was altogether
y.ruu., M facts nr nrincinl.s ,ver. al
duraI but d OR smith, nrasun. h..
.uiovs nm honorary title for he i. confess
eli, unacousintad with nbvsiolo-v- smoke
"a Niece " declainiu., 1T was uniirnified 10
cool, food for beasts TINT nature did mot
c,nk food for animal, and therefore man
sboull NOT
n 81. o,c,ir. tbar the Massachusetts stat,
boord of agriculture discussed this subiact
at their meeting i'm December 1867 as We
find I'M the reuort of that bodv for 1867
The sneakers were all men of high char
acter mature wears experienced in tn.
br.alirc kaanir,- and fa+tanin,, cattI..
mast If them engaged in the dairy busi.
moss and thsre was but Gttle diferenc.
NJ o,,inion as In the use and valna of food
co,lJad il, some ,va,. prof Acassiv The
Industrious naturalist shows in The follow.
inl, claar main and nnmistaEoble languaqe
sb,ull lao ,ranara5 il bair,, ,ran,isad tho,
tho f,,l a.. i've am, stol i nor thai ,ybicI
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and uacbonicauv altarad in man, va,,s
snakin,r ar staar,,nl, rsstoras bo,. =, ;ts
u-,n+.j b,IL- and s,,ce,,larce aud a. prnf
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