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milked for two or three days, it being some- 

 times difficult to find them, owing to their 

 pasturing in woods : though it is usual to 

 have a bell hung to them, and the owner 

 knows the tone of the bell : but there are 

 some people who milk them only when they 

 want milk, even when the cattle can be found. 

 Perhaps they have not proper vessels to put 

 the milk in, or they may think it keeps 

 better in the cow's udder : for milk is hard 

 to keep from the frost in winter - 9 and the 

 heat in summer very soon turns it sour ; 

 and so they milk it as they want it : which 

 is frequently done. As I was a milker of 

 cows, I tried the experiment for two or 

 three days, of milking but once a day. 

 This was in winter, when we wanted to go 

 to town only once a day with milk ; but 

 the milking so seldom caused the cows to 

 decline in their milk very much. 



The method of feeding cows in America 

 is in every instance the same as that of 

 feeding hogs in England: broth, dish- 

 washings, and any filthy stuff, with bran 

 or meal of any kind. The fat cattle are 





