USEFUL PROJECTS. 
those by whose means my farm has 
been made productive, I determined 
to try the experiment of feeding 
_ milch cows after a method very dif- 
ferent to what was in general prac- 
tice. I hope to be enabled thereby 
to furnish a plentiful supply of good 
and palatable milk, with a prospect 
of its affording a fair return of pro- 
fit, so as to induce others to follow 
_my example. 
The supply of milk during the 
greatest part of the year, in all the 
places in which I have any local 
_ knowledge, is scanty and precarious, 
and rather a matter of favour than 
of open traffic. 
Consonant with the views I en- 
_tertained of feeding milch cows, I 
made a provision of cabbages, com- 
mon and Swedish turnips, Kholrabi, 
and cole-secd. I made use also of 
chaff, boiled, and mixed, with re- 
fuse grain and oil cake, I used 
straw instead of hay for their fodder 
at night. 
The greatest difficulty which I 
have had to contend with, has been 
_ to prevent any decayed leaves being 
_ given. The ball only of the turnip 
was used. When these precautions 
were attended to, the milk and but- 
ter have been excellent. . 
Having had no previous know- 
ledge of the management of a dairy, 
my first experiment was not con- 
ducted with that frugality requisite 
to produce much profit. 
I sold the first season, between 
October 1804, and the 10th of 
May, 1805, upwards of 20,000 
quarts of new milk. ‘Though my 
return was not great, I felt a tho- 
rough conviction that it proceeded 
from errors in the conduct of the 
undertaking, and that under more 
_ judicious management, it would not 
fail of making an ample return, 
which the subsequent experiment 
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will prove. In the mean time I had 
the satisfaction of knowing, that it 
had contributed essentially to the 
comfort of numbers. 
In October, 1805, my dairy re- 
commenced with a stock of 30 
milch cows; a large proportion of 
these were heifers; and in general 
the stock was not well selected for 
giving milk, for they were pur- 
chased with a view of their being 
again sold as soon as the green 
crop should be exhausted. If the 
plan be found to answer under such 
unfavourable circumstances, what 
may not more experienced farmers 
expect ? 
By the end of this present month 
I shall have sold upwards of 40,000 
quarts of milk. ‘ 
The quantity of food, and its cost, 
are as follow. The produce of milk 
from each cow upon 200 days, the 
period of the experiment, is calcu- 
lated at no more than six wine 
quarts in the twenty-four hours: 
this is to allow for the risk and 
failure in milk of some of the heifers. 
A good-stock, I have no doubt, 
would exceed eight quarts in the 
two meals, which would add 1001. 
to the profit. 
Daily cost of feeding one milch 
cow :— 
Two stone of green food 
(supposing 30 tons of 
green crop on an acre, 
Ad. per stone would pay 
51. per acre) at 4 per 
stone of 14lb. 0 O O} 
Two stone of chaff boiled, 
at id. perstone .. 0 0.2 
Two lbs. of oil-cake, at 
id. per lb. costing from 
8). to 9]. per ton. 0) One 
Eight Ibs. of straw, at 2d. 
- per stone oi fede WOOO 
0 0 5: 
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