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They should be kept clean — washed, if need be, and curried. 

 The following statement is copied from one in Ireland, who 

 stated that he had an actual profit of c£331 6s., on keeping a 

 single cow, m /ioi/se, eight years — during which time she yielded 

 38,855 quarts of milk. In the summer he fed his cow on 

 clover, rye-grass, lucerne, and carrots, four times a day, feeding 

 at noon about four gallons of grains and two of bran, mixed — 

 giving her no more than she would eat up cleanly. The feed 

 in the winter was the same ; feeding five or six times a day ; 

 supplied her with food while milking ; keeping the manger clean ; 

 never tied her ; being particularly careful to milk her cleanly 

 — milch cows being often spoiled for want of patience in the 

 milker. This neglect frequently causes suppuration and blind- 

 ness in the teats — the wait of milk. The result of one year, 

 the cow then being eleven years old, is here detailed: She 

 fCalved on the 3d of April, and on the 5th of June, the calves 

 , — twins — being nine weeks old, were sold for £12 12s. From 

 the 6th of June to the 3d of July, four weeks, she gave twenty- 

 four quarts, daily, equal to six hundred and seventy-two 

 quarts, yielding seventeen pounds of butter per week, or 

 sixty-eight pounds per month. From the 4th of July, to the 

 18th of September, eleven weeks, she gave twenty-two quarts, 

 daily, equal to sixteen hundred and ninety-four quarts, yielding 

 sixteen pounds of butter per week, or one hundred and seventy- 

 six pounds for the whole time. From the 19th of September 

 to the 13th of November, eight weeks, she gave eighteen 

 quarts, daily, equal to one thousand and eight quarts, yielding 

 fourteen pounds of butter per week, equal to one hundred and 

 twelve pounds, &g. Total, forty-eight weeks, averaging about 

 fourteen quarts per day, equalling five thousand three hundred 

 and sixty quarts, yielding five hundred and ninety-four pounds 

 of butter. This, at twenty cents a pound, would equal one 

 hundred and eighteen dollars, eighty cents. The rent of a 

 cow, per year, in Ireland and Scotland varies from seven to 

 twelve pounds sterling. 



Lastly. The dairy-room. This should be of equable tem- 

 perature, say about forty-five degrees — with a northern expo- 

 sure — well ventilated — no inside communication with any other 

 building — free from smoke — and perfectly clean. So of every 



