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Show centage of thrf, gveen tomatoes? had ripened and the tomato lejiveJ had cured. The cows could not ti kept away from the.se tomato piles, f They rooted theui over with noses ami! horns and cleaned up everything but t'Jo bare vine, and at nights as long 'p.a the tomatoes lasted they would comie into the barn painfully full and their udders distended. I leave it with scientists to nay whether the milk producing element was in the tomato itself or whether it supplemented some other feed to make a well balanced milk ration. Toinator For Stock. A correspondent of the Rural Canadian Can-adian last fall hud a thousand bushels of tomatoes left after his market, and tried the experiment of feeding them to his cows with such an increased milk flow that ho pJnnted tomatoes for the purpose of feeding them to the cows. Ho says: After the first frost last fall wo pulled tomato vines and collected them in piles, with the green tomatoes adhering, where they remained re-mained a couple of weeks before we could let the cows into the field. By that time we found that a large per- |