~3° Means of enabling a Cottager to hep a Cow 



made into hay for the winter and fpringfeed, and three roodfc 

 or clover eui green for fummer food. 



The third portion may be fovvn either with barley, wheat, 

 or oats, according to the foil or climate, and the general 

 cuttom of the country. The ftraw of any of thefe crops would 

 be of effential fervice for littering the cow, but would be 

 full more ufeful, it' cut into chaff, for feeding it. 



The fourth portion, appropriated to clover and rye grafs, 

 to be cut green, which, with the affiftance of the orchard, 

 wi,l produce, on three roods of land, as much food as will 

 maintain a cow and her calf for five months, namely, from 

 the end of May, or beginning of June, when it may be firft 

 cut, to the firli of November, befides fome food for the pigs. 

 It is fuppofed that an acre of clover and rye grafs, cut green, 

 will produce 20,000 lbs. weight of food for cattle. Three 

 roods, therefore, ought to yield 15,000 lbs. weight. A large 

 cow requires 1 10 lbs. weight of green food per day; a mid- 

 dling fized cow, fuch as a cottager is likely to purchafe, 

 not above 90 lbs.; confequently, in five months, allowing 

 1320 lbs. weight for the calf and the pigs, there will remain 

 13,680 lbs. for the cow*. Were there, however, even a 

 fmall deficiency, it would be more than compenfated by the 

 rood of land propofed to be kept in perpetual pafture as an 

 orchard. 



IV. Mode in which the Family may he maintained. 

 It is calculated that three roods and eight perches of pota- 

 toes will maintain a family of fix perfons for about nine 

 months in the year ; but, according to the preceding plan, 

 it is propofed to have but two roods under that article; for- 

 however valuable potatoes are juftly accounted, yet fome 

 change of food would be acceptable, and the cottager will 

 be enabled, froni the produce of the cow, and by the income 

 derived from his own labour, and from that of his family, to 

 purchafe other whqlefome articles of provifion. 



V. Ma?iner i?i which the Stock may he kept. 

 It appears from the preceding fyflem of cropping, that ten 

 roods of land, or two acres and a half, are appropriated to 

 the railing pf food for the cow in fummer and winter, befides 

 the pafture of the orchard; and unlefs the feafon fliould be 

 extremely unfavourable, the produce will be found not only 

 adequate to that purpofe, but alio to maintain the calf for 

 fome time, till it can be fold to advantage. It is indeed ex- 

 tremely material, under the propofed fyflem, to make as 



* Thcfe calculations arc mcrelv given as data for experiment. It mud 

 Jepend upon the fc-ifon, whether the tares or the clover mould be made 

 into hay. 



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