Cultivation of Grafs Land. Cow-keeping. Milking of Com* 



dry meat, fuch as hay, ftraw, or other fimilar materials, with the grafFes. In foils 

 where lucern can be grown to advantage, it may be made ufe of with more benefit 

 than the above; and by combining other forts of green juicy food with either of 

 them, it feems not improbable but that a ftill greater profit may be produced. Of 

 the fuperior advantage of keeping milch cows in this method there can be little 

 doubt, when confidered in different points of view. 



In the milking of cows, more attention is probably neceflary than has hitherto 

 been beftowed upon the fubject, in order to obtain the greateft poflible quantity 

 of milk. On the physiological principle of the fecretions of animals being in- 

 creafed in proportion as the fecreted fluid is more frequently withdrawn, it has 

 been recommended to have recourfe to more frequent milkings in order to augment 

 the quantity of that fluid in cows. And there can be little doubt but that by 

 accuftoming the fecretory organs to a more frequent fecretion, fuch a habit may 

 be eftablifhed in them as will afford a larger proportion of milk in a given time. 

 But in order to effect this in the moft perfect manner, it will be neceflary to have 

 the cows highly fed, and to obferve the greateft regularity and exactnefs in the 

 periods of milking, and to be careful that every drop of milk is drawn away each 

 time as without due regard in thefe refpecls the delired effect will not be pro 

 duced. This is fully mown to be the cafe by the few experiments that have been 

 inftituted with the view of deciding the matter; as while the cows were con. 

 fuming the more juicy fpring food, there appears to have been an increafc in the 

 quantity of milk both by three and four milkings in the day ; but in the autumn* 

 feafon there feems to have been rather a decreafe under the fame circumftances.* 



* In order to afcertain the advantages to be obtained in this way, the following experiments tvere 

 ir.adc by Mr. Macro, and are ftated in the twelfth volume of the Annals of Agriculture: 



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