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Roods. 
Under potatoes, 2 roods, 
- under turnips one,*.._. 3 
Under winter tares2 roods, 
a tazes one,.-....°3 
Under } arley, wheat, or 
Fats eee eae yee 3 
Under clover, with a mix- 
ture of rye-grass,+.._. 8 
Total 12 roods. 
Other articles besides these might 
be mentioned, but it seems to me of 
peculiar importance’ to. restri¢t the 
attention of the cottager to as few 
objecis of cultivation as possible. 
It is proposed, that the produce of 
the tw roods of potatoes shall go 
to the maintenance of the cottager 
and his family,t and'that the rood 
of turnips should be given to the 
cow in winter and during the spring, 
in addition to its other fare. 
The second portion, sown with 
tares, (the two roods of potatoes of 
the former year, to be successively 
sown with winter tares, and the tur- 
mip rood with spring tares) might 
partly be cut green, for feeding the 
cow in summer and autumn ; but, 
if the season will permit, the whole 
Ought to be made into hay, for the 
winter and spring feed, and three 
roods of clover cut green for sum- 
mer food. 
The third portion may be sown 
either with barley, wheat, or oats, 
ANNUAL REGISTER, 1803. 
according to the soil or climate, and 
the general custom of the country, 
The straw of any of these crops 
would be of essential service for lit- 
tering the cow, but would be still 
more useful, if cut into chaff, for 
feeding it. . 
The fourth portion, appropriated 
to clover and rye-grass, to be cut 
green, which, with the assistance of 
the orchard, will produce, on three 
roods of land, as much food as will 
maintain a cow and her calf for five 
months, from the end of May, or 
beginning of June, when it may be 
first cut, to the beginning of No- 
vember, besides some feod for the 
pigs. It is supposed, that an acre 
of clover and rye-grass, cut green, 
will produce twenty thousand pounds 
weight ot food for cattle. Three 
roods, therefore, ought to yield 
fifteen thousand pounds weight. A 
large cow requires one hundred and 
ten weight of green food per day ; 
a middling-sized cow, such as a cot- 
tager is likely to purchase, not 
above ninety pounds ; consequently, 
in five months, allowing one thousand 
three hundred and twenty pounds 
-weightfor the calf and the pigs, there 
will remain thirteen thousand six 
hundred and eighty pounds for the 
cow.|| Were there, however, even 
a small deficiency, it would be more 
than compensated by the rood of 
land proposed to be kept in perpe- 
tual pasture, as an orchard. 
4, Mode 
* I would also recommend a small quantity of flax, where the culture and ma- 
agement of the plant was known, to employ the females, particularly in winter, 
and to supply the family with huen. 
+ Some recommend the proportion, per acre, to be at the rate of one bushel 
‘of rye-grass to 12lbs. of red clover; others, 14lb. of red clover to half a bushel of 
rye-grass, 
t By Sir John Methuen poor’s experiments, it was found that half a rood, or 
ne-eizhth of an acre, produced for several years as great a weight of potatoes as 
was sufficient for a family of four persons, four acres answered for 131 persons. 
|| These calculations are merely given as a data for experiment. 
It must depend 
upon the season, whether the tares or the cloyer should be made into hay. 
