Cultivation qf Grafs Laud. Coir -keeping*-- Feeding of, $c, 491 



timber. In country fituations it will fcldoni be ncceflary to preferve them in 

 this way, as they will chiefly be wanted in the winter fcafon. 



Near Leeds in Yorklhi re, the milk-dealers in fome inftances feed their cows with 

 cut grafs in the fummer feafon, and brewer s grains and oat ft raw in the winter. 

 And in the vicinity of Sheffield the &quot; moft experienced cow-keepers give five 

 hundred weight of linfeed dufl mixed with three hundred weight of bran per 

 week to fix cows ; others give a quarter of a peck of beans, with a peck of grains 

 for one feed for one cow, three times a day.&quot;* Thefe are probably too expenfivc 

 methods to be generally adopted ; but as they are found to anfvver well, they may 

 be employed with advantage in particular fituations. Jt is remarked in the Agri 

 cultural Survey of Middlefex, that &quot; fome cow-keepers have tried fait mixed with 

 the grains, more with a &quot;view to preferve the grains longer in a found ftate, than 

 from any confideration as to the health of their flock, or the improvement of the 

 quality of the milk. It is acknowledged that the cows eat the grains fo mixed 

 with great avidity ; but the proprietors not getting an adequate return for their 

 trouble and expenfe, it is not found that it is now much practifed.&quot; It has how 

 ever been contended, that the mixing of common fait with the food of cows not 

 only improves the quality but increafes the quantity of the milk, and at the fame 

 time is ferviceable to the health of the animals ; but accurate experiments are 

 wanting to fairly determine the queftion. 



The obfervations of Baron D Alton on the management of thefe animals, go to 

 prove by various accurate calculations, that a greater profit is capable of being 

 derived from the keeping of them in the houfe than in the ufual method of allowing 

 them to feed in the paftures. And the author of the Agricultural Survey of the 

 Weft Riding of Yorkfhire has remarked, that by keeping cows upon red clover 

 and rye grafs, tied up in the houfe in the day-time during the fummer feafon, and 

 putting them out after milking in the evening for the purpofe of air and water, 

 one acre of clover has been found to go a? far as two when paftured ; befides a larger 

 quantity of milk afforded. The large portion of rich manure that is made in this 

 way is fuppofed to compenfate any additional trouble or expenfe that may be 

 incurred in cutting and conveying the food to the yards. In this method of keep 

 ing cows, as well as thofe with grains and other forts of fucculent food, it is con- 

 ftantly neceflary, for the reafon that has been mentioned, to combine fome fort of 



* Correfled Agricultural Report of the Weft Riding of Yorkfliire. 

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