PdVLTRY. ^^ 



sSlt is applied ; if the butter is too slowly or too hastily churn- 

 ed • or if other minute attentions are neglected, the milk will be 

 in a great measure lost. If these nice operations occurred 

 -enly once a month, or once a week, they might be easily.guard- 

 ed against; but as they require to be observed during every 

 8ta4 of the process, and almost every hour of the day, the 

 most vigilant attention must be kept up throughout the whole 

 -season. That is not to be expected from hired servants. 1 he 

 wives and daughters of farmers, therefore, havmg a greater 

 interest in the concern, are more likely to bestow tharcon- 

 slant, anxious, and unremitting attention to the dairj', without 

 • which it cannotbe rendered profitable;* 



PoULTlfY. 



^TflE advftntacres which the farmer may derive from keeping 

 Doultry, may depend in some measure on his local situation. 

 Cthe vicinity oflarge towns, or cities, they may be made a 

 profitable source ot" income ; and m pvery situation in the 

 c^ntrv, though one may have the occupancy of no more land 

 SVs^sufficilnt for a garden, the keeping ot a few fowls wO^ 

 furnish some of the necessaries, and even luxuries .of life, at 

 but little expence. Indeed, an actual advantage is derived to 

 the owner by the destruction of various insects, which conBti- 

 tute at least, a part of their food a great proportion of the 



^^There is not a more nutrative food, of the same expence, than 

 the eggs of the dunghill fowl 



* Seelhe Complete GrazieTc 



