Farm stock require more than usual attention during the winter months, when grass is short, and not very nutritious. If dairy cows are to he profitable, and to yield any quantity of milk, they will of course require extra feed — green oats, hay and mangolds, tho latter being now, on many dairy farms, favourite roots for cows, causing, it is believed, a better (low of milk, and giving a good colour to butter. Some Australian authorities, however, con sider that mangolds arc more suited for summer than for winter feed. One of tliem says : — " Fifty pounds of roots contain nearly two buckets of water ; and I have always contended that this root ought to he a summer feed, when its cool juiciness would be so grateful to animals, rather than a winter fodder, when wuch cold feed is not nearly so

acceptable as hay, straw, or chaff." As there is usually plenty of grass in the summer, in this colony at least, 1 suppose farmers will continue to grow mangolds for winter use. Mangolds arc not bad food for horses. Twenty pounds chaffed wheat straw, a few oats, and thirty pounds mangolds have been found to keep horses in excellent condition. And in feeding roots to horses I dare say they would be all the better with mangolds and carrots rather than be fed wholly on the latter. Pumpkin has also been found very good feed for hoi-scs. In respect to the care and feeding of dairy cows in the winter season, the American ' Farmer ' said some time ago : — " Dairy cows arc only profitable in some people's estimation during the summer and autumn, ancl many farmers have not actually enough milk in the winter to supply their own table with fresh butter ; while others, to obtain some, give the tw r o or three cows having the most milk about them, the filthy dish-water and refuse from the kitchen, to Jtcep them giving some. The consequence is, nauseous butter, which like the stuff they feed the cows with, is only fit for pigs to eat. Dairy cows will prove the capacity of any man in the business of farming, for there is no stock which resents parsi mony so quickly. 