272 Food—Milk'fed Pork. 



tion, cows having been hoven by it. If 

 potatoes be given to cows, they should be 

 steamed or baked; those who chuse to give 

 them raw and mashed, should allow hay 

 with them, as they have been said to bring 

 the scouring rot on cows. Bruised furze- 

 tops are very good, and help to make capital 

 winter butter. Cabbages may be given 

 moderately, but turnips make thin milk and 

 bad butter, . in spite of all the nostrums 

 which have been recommended as preven- 

 tives. The miserable practice of giving 

 oil-cake to cows, insures greasy, unsubstan- 

 tial, ill-scented butter, and has a similar 

 effect on veal. When substantial food ap- 

 pears necessary, a daily moderate feed of 

 oats, broken, or fine pollard moistened 

 with water, is most proper. 



With the two cows in full milk, may be 

 , kept well, a breeding sow, or two or three 

 young pigs ; or, should the proprietor de- 

 sire a specimen of the finest milk-i'ed pork, 

 he may feed a pig upon skimmed milk, with 

 the addition of a very small quantity of 

 barley or pea-meal making it thoroughly iat 

 in two months. 



