USERUL: PROJECTS. 
&. Mode in which the Family may 
be maintained. 
It is calculated, that three roods 
and eight perches of potatoes will 
maintain a small family of six per- 
sons for about nine months in the 
year : but, according to the preced- 
ing plan, it is proposed to have but 
two roods under that article; for 
however valuable potatoes are just- 
ly accounted, yet some change of 
food would be acceptable ; and the 
cottager will be enabled, from the 
produce of the cow, and by the in- 
come derived from his own labour, 
and from that of his family, to pur- 
chase other wholesonie articles of 
provision. 
5. Manner in” which the Stock 
may be kept, 
It appears, from the preceding 
system of cropping, that ten roods 
of land, or two acres and a half, 
are appropriated to the raising of 
food for the cow, in summer and 
winter, besides the pasture of the 
orchard’; and, unless the season 
should be extremely unfavourable, 
the produce will be found not only 
adequate to that purpose, but also 
to maintain the calf for some time, 
till it can be sold to advantage. It 
is, indeed, extremely material, un- 
der the proposed system, to make 
as much profit of the calves as pos- 
sible, as the money thus raised will 
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be a resource enabling the cottager 
to replace his cow, when a new one 
must be purchased. 
For the winter provision of the 
cow, which is the most. material, 
because summer food can be more 
easily procured, there is the produce, 
1, Of about three roods of tares, 
or clover, made into hay. 
9. Of three roods of straw, de- 
ducting what may be necessary for 
litter ; and if dry earth be put into 
the cow’s hovel, and removed from 
time to time to the dunghill, little 
or no litter will be necessary. 
3. Of one rood of turnips. 
The whole will be sufficient for se« 
ven months in the year, namely, from 
the 1st November to the 1st June > 
and, during the remaining five 
months, the pasture of the orchard, 
some of the winter tares, and the 
produce of three roods of tares, or 
clover and rye-grass, will not only 
suffice, but will furnish a surplus 
for the calf, if it is kept any length 
of time*, and some tares or clover 
for the pigs. 
The inferior barley, potatoes, 
&c. will, of course, be given to the 
pigs and poultry. 
6. Value of the Produce. 
The land, thus managed, will cer- 
tainly produce, by means of the ex- 
tra industry of the family, and at a 
small expetice, a most important ad- 
dition 
* In a pamphlet just published by Richardson, Cornhill, on the culture of pota- 
toes, price 1s. the following mode of applying the refuse potatoes to the feeding ,of 
calves is strongly recommended. 
“ Take two gallons of small potatoes, wash them clean, put them into a pot of 
boiling water sufficient to cover them, and let them boil till the whole becomes 2 
pulp: then add more water, and run the whole through a hair sieve, whieh will pro- 
duce a strong nutritive gruel. At first use a very small quantity, warmed up with 
milk, to make it palatable to the calf, and increase the quantity daily, till it be- 
comes equal. A quart of potatoe gruel, and a quart of scald or skimmed milk, 
will be sufficient for a good meal, which should he given warm three times @ day.” 
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