FIVE ACRES TOO MUCH. 



accurately ; but, apart from the value of clothes and 

 clothes-lines, her feed cost thirty dollars a month, and 

 the man s attendance six more. So long as she kept 

 on giving twelve quarts a day, there was a clear prof 

 it of four cents daily, besides the thorough manuring 

 of the yard, which with farmers is an important 

 point, and would have been more valuable in this 

 instance if it had been possible to grow any thing in 

 it, and had it not been, unfortunately, that, for some 

 unknown reason, not even a spear of grass had ever 

 been willing to exist there. 



The quantity of milk, however, soon began to di 

 minish, until, after six weeks, the arrangement with 

 our neighbor had to be discontinued. This reduced 

 the profit, although Cushy still gave more than an 

 abundance for our family, and there would have been 

 a loss had not hay and bran come up to the occasion 

 by coming down in price. The reader, therefore, 

 must call upon the author of &quot; Ten Acres Enough&quot; 

 to determine, by a few algebraical eliminations, 

 whether, if a cow s yield falls off more or less, and 

 her feed diminishes in price considerably, there is a 

 loss or profit, and if so, why so, and how much. For 

 my part, I never could arrive at any satisfactory con 

 clusion except that pure milk and fresh cream were, 

 either combined or separate, very satisfactory. 



