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If the temperature of the climate be fach as to per- 

 mit the cows to graze at eafe throughout the day, 

 they fhould be fufFered. to range on fuch paftures 

 at freedom -, but if the cows are fo much incom- 

 moded by tne heat as to be prevented from eating 

 through the day, they ought in that cafe to be taken 

 into cool fhadcs for protedtion, where, after allowing 

 them a proper time to ruminate, they ihould be 

 fupplied with abundance of green food frefli cut for 

 the purpofe, and given to them by hand frequently 

 in frtiall quantities frelh and frefh, fo as to induce 

 them to eat it with pleafure.* When the heat of 



aJOTerted, that old paftures alone can ever be made to afford rich butter 

 or cheefe. This, however, I know from my own repeated experience 

 to be a popular > error, as I have frequently feen muth richer butter 

 made by one perfon from cows that were fed in the houfe chiefly with 

 cut clover and rye-grafs, than that which was made by others, where 

 the cows were fed on very rich old paftures. Mankind are in general 

 difpofed to throw the blame of every failure upon fome circumftance 

 that does not reflect on themfelves as bad managers. Hence it is that 

 the grafs of a farm is often blamed for the want of richnefs of the butter 

 produced upon it; when, if the circumftances were fully inveftigated, 

 it would be found to be occafioned by the unlkilfuhiefs of the dairy- 

 maid, or the want of attention in the choice of proper cows. 



* In very warm climates, where the heat is extremely oppreflive to 

 cows, and the flies are exceedingly troublefome, flieds open on one 

 fide, the roof being only fupported there by pillars, would not afford 

 them fuch efK<5lual (belter as they would require. In thefe cafes, the 

 feeds ihould be walled up on both fides, and be left open only at the 

 two ends, which, if properly placed, would produce a continued ftream, 

 of air throughout the whole buiJjding, that would prove highly ialutary 

 to the cattle. 



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