Food — Calculations. 2G9 



first and best of all food for our domestic 

 animals. Of the artificial grasses, lucerne 

 stands first, and green tares are a very suc- 

 culent and nutritious food for Milch Cows. 

 The saving method of managing grass, and 

 it will be found excellent economy where 

 the proprietor may have only a small close 

 or two, is to keep it constantly shut, and 

 free from the tread of the cows, and to cut 

 the grass as soon as of sufficient length and 

 substance, and carry it to them ; no more 

 being cut at once, than can be consumed in 

 a day, the cutting being made in the mora* 

 ing. This to continue throughout the 

 season, and as late in autumn as any growth 

 can be obtained. According to Mr. Cur- 

 wen's experience, some years since, three 

 acres of grass cut and carried, supplied 

 thirty milch cows with two stone each, or 

 twenty-eight pounds, during two hundred 

 days. He observes that, to have supphed 

 them with two stone of hay each, during 

 the same period, would have required seven- 

 ty-five acres of land for its production. 

 And to have grazed such a number of cows 



