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were growing upon it. A peculiarity in this man s management 

 is, that he works one of his cows in his cart, and calculates that 

 her labor saves him an expense of five pounds ; she is milked 

 in the morning before she is put to work, and, although worked, 

 she makes eight pounds of butter a week, besides furnishing 

 some milk for the family. This is a sort of Robinson Crusoe 

 management, which is well deserving of attention. It would 

 not be easy to find a reason why the female of one class of ani 

 mals should be exempted from work, rather than of another ; and 

 there is no ground to suppose that, with good feeding and careful 

 usage, moderate labor would be injurious to the health of an 

 animal ; much more likely is it to be conducive to health, and 

 even, in such case as this, to the more liberal secretions of milk. 

 Other circumstances in this man s economy are worthy of ob 

 servation ; he saves all his liquid manure in a tank by his own 

 house, and mixes with it a proportion of soot and salt ; he throws 

 his land into heaps, and puts the liquid upon the heaps, and then 

 spreads it abroad &quot; because,&quot; as he remarks, &quot;his land is so 

 near the chalk, that if he put his liquid manure upon the land, 

 three fourths of it would be wasted it would go clean away, so 

 as never to get it again ; but when put in a heap of mould it is 

 retained.&quot; 



Produce of four Acres, held by J. Piper, in 1842. 



. s. d. 



42 bushels of wheat, at 7 s. 6 d. per bushel 15 15 



250 do. potatoes, at 15 d. per do 15 12 6 



Food for one cow, which gave 41bs. butter per week, 



at 1 s. per Ib 1000 



The other cow do. do. do. do. .10 00 



Food for three pigs, at 20 st. each, and at 3 s. 6d. per st. 10 10 



61 17 6 



This example shows the extraordinary results of minute and 

 exact cultivation, and the value of economy in husbanding with 

 extreme care all the resources for manure. The cow is an ani 

 mal I have always looked upon with the greatest respect for her 

 justice and her liberality ; in this case she pays for her board by 

 her yield in milk and butter, and adds to it her labor, or, as 

 is said in case of a free passage on board ship, &quot; she works her 



