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own passage j &quot; but the good creature s usefulness does not end 

 here. When she has completed her round of beneficence, her 

 benefactions do not close with her life ; her hoofs are made into 

 glue ; her horns into combs j her bones into knife-handles and 

 cane-tops ; her hair worked up into plaster j her skin into shoes ; 

 and her meat into food. Who can wonder that the Hindoos 

 always regarded her with a religious veneration ? 



The next instance presented by the Parliamentary Reports is 

 that of J. Dumbrell. His allotment is six acres, and is managed 

 by himself, his father, (seventy years old,) and a child of nine 

 years old. &quot; The soil is chalk, on a deep soil, in a valley.&quot; 



His stock consists of two cows and a heifer, and from two to 

 three pigs. His succession of crops is thus described : &quot; First, 

 Italian rye grass, cut four times, watering it each time with 

 liquid manure after cutting it ; then tares ; then clover ; then 

 cabbage comes in, and mangel-wurzel ; and second cut clover, 

 and sometimes three ; and that carries us all the summer 

 through : then we begin upon the roots in winter, turnips and 

 mangel-wurzel, and straw.&quot; 



The following is the statement of his produce for 1840 : 



. s. d. 



From two cows in nine months and a half, from the 

 16th of Jan. to the 26th of Oct., made 400ilbs. o f 

 butter, which at 1 s. per Ib 20 3 



The cow, all the year stall-fed, yielding a third more 

 than the other, which grazed half an acre ; and their 

 two calves sold for . 5 18 



The skim milk, at 3 pints Id., or given to the pigs, is 



estimated at 10 



On one quarter of an acre he grew 18 bushels of oats, 



which, at 4 s. per bushel, amounts to 3 12 



On 88 poles (i. e., a little more than half an acre) he 

 grew 32 bushels of wheat, worth, at 8 s. per bushel, 

 (which is equal to the consumption of himself, his 

 wife, and three infant children,) 12 16 



Besides pigs, potatoes, vegetables, and the butter to be 

 expected to the end of the year, which may fairly 

 be estimated on the whole of the land (including 

 the foregoing, as I understand the account, which is 

 rather imperfectly drawn up) at 60 00 



