393 



Per Contra. . s. </. 

 By twelve bushels of corn, at 



three shillings and nine pence, 250 



By blades and tops, . .210 



By the herbage for three years, o 15 o 

 By loss on one acre of land in 



four years, . . . 8 7 6 



13 17 6 



Now, from the last calculation, the 

 reader may be surprised how any man 

 could live on such a farm. The case was 

 this : with purchased linseed-cakes, to the 

 amount of three shillings and six pence, 

 and Indian corn from the farm to the 

 amount of three shillings, I fed each cow 

 one week. We did not give our cows cakes 

 during the summer : but the price of milk 

 then being six pence per quart, and eight 

 pence in the winter, it made little difference. 

 From the sale of the milk, each cow, on an 

 average, yielded three shillings and nine 

 pence per day, or one pound six shillings 



