42 DAIRY. 



Colonel Wordsworth has also a dairy of sixty 

 cows which he lets out to a tenant who ma- 

 nages the establishment, making the cheese 

 and butter and paying to the Colonel 20s. for 

 each cow, besides a proportion of the produce 

 in kind. It need hardly be remarked that 

 the quantity of milk yielded by a cow left night 

 and day to shiver in the open air in the rigour 

 of an American winter, must be very trifling, 

 not certainly one-third of what she might give 

 under proper shelter. 



The rotation of crops followed on the arable 

 farm are wheat and clover alternately that is, 

 wheat is sown in autumn, and amongst it 

 clover is sown in spring ; the clover remains 

 until the second summer, neither mowed nor 

 pastured, but ploughed in for manure and 

 then wheat is again sown in autumn. This is 

 the only manuring the land receives ; for as 

 the cattle are all foddered in winter on the 

 meadow, the straw is either burnt, or piled up 

 in large masses to rot and waste under the in- 

 fluence of the weather. 



That this is a most improvident mode of 



