268 Milk for the Labourer^ Summer Feed, 



ter, as well as the summer season ; and of 

 these, if they will take care enough to walk 

 in our old and well-trodden paths, they 

 shall not fail. The method is by contriving 

 to have a fresh milker in the winter, with an 

 ample store of the best provision for the 

 season^ I will here just touch upon a point, 

 which ought to be of great interest to hu- 

 manity. Should a family of th^ descrip- 

 tion here indicated, have milk, either new 

 or skimmed, to spare, the poor labourers in 

 the vicinity will be glad and ready pur- 

 chasers. It is a trouble my family most 

 willingly incurred. To the great disgrace 

 of this land, flowing with milk and honey, 

 and eaten up with religious zeal, the wretch- 

 ed poor, to whose toil and exhaustion we 

 owe all our luxuries and comforts, have 

 7iever been able to obtain milk for the 

 sustenance of their offspring and their own 

 most innocent enjoyment, even in the 

 dairy counties. 



Summer feeding ; and let it always be 

 recollected, that economy is the leading 

 feature of our plan. Natural grass is the 



