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To afcertain this fadl, we muft enquire, what may 

 be the average expence of keeping a milch-cow on 

 a dairy-farm for any given time ? It is faid, upon 

 very good authority, that the expence generally is 

 from 3I. to 3I. los. per annum. Two acres and a V 

 halfof pafture fit for this ufe is fufficient to keep a 

 cow the whole year through, and fuch land is valued 

 at from 25s. to 30s. per acre. At 25s. fuppofe, the 

 keeping of each cow would amount to 3I. 2s. 6d, 

 per annum, A dairy farm, therefore, confiding of 

 forty-eight acres at 25s. per annum, would amount 

 to 60I. rent per annum ; and the number of cows 

 that might.be kept upon fuch a farm, allowing two 

 acres and a half to each cow, would be nineteen 

 and a fradlion, therefore we will fay twenty. 



In the next place, let us enquire, what would be 

 the average expence of keeping a cow upon food 

 raifed in arable land as a fuccedaneum to grafs,. &c. 

 rent and every neceflary expence included ? 



We are aflured, by unqueftionable authority, that 

 a bulhel of potatoes, given half at night and half in 

 the morning, with a fmall allowance of hay, is fuffi- 

 cient to keep three cows a day. On that allowance 

 their milk will be as rich and as good, and tfie quan- 

 tity as great, as in the fummer months when the 

 cows are in good pa(\ure. 



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