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cows may be turned upon the common of 

 waste, to remain or come home at their 

 hberty, being fed to the full, with cut-grass 

 morning and evening, with the constant 

 caution, of allowing them shelter in the fly 

 season. They may lie abroad during sum- 

 mer nights, in a well-littered yard, or se- 

 cure waste, a sufficiency of cut-grass be- 

 ing at their command. If one beast drive 

 the other, always at feeding times, tye up 



the mistress. 



Winter-feeding. The chief depen- 

 dence for cow^s is rowen or after math hay. 

 This must either be grown at home, or pur- 

 chased. It is a piece of extravagance to 

 allow a good milch cow dry straw, because 

 milk is worth more than hay ; but should the 

 necessity exist of using straw, none other 

 is fit than oat straw. Rowen is generally 

 supposed to force millc, but in poor pastures, 

 perhaps the first crop may be preferable ; 

 carrots are an excellent winter food, indeed 

 the best of the root kind ; mangel-wurtzcl, 

 also, affords a plentiful supply ; which 

 last, however, must be dispensed with cau- 



