49* 



Cultivation of Grafs Land. Cow-keeping i Profit of. 



impracticable. In fuch cafes all that can be done is, perhaps, that of having the 

 operation executed with as much care as poflible, in refpect to the whole of the 

 milk being taken away each time, and by perfons who are careful and perfectly 

 accuftomed to the work. Where this is neglected, much lofs may be fuftained 

 not only in the immediate produce of the milk, but in the cows becoming much 

 more quickly dry, as well as their being more fubjecT: to affections of the udder. 

 The beil advice is to have the bufinefs performed in an expeditious manner, in 

 regard to the whole of the animals, and with the utmoft attention in refpect to 

 .cleannefs. A fufficient number of perfons mould of courfe be employed in pro 

 portion to that of the cows. An expert milker is capable of performing the 

 operation on from fix to feven or eight cows in the courfe of an hour.* 



The profit or advantage of this method of farming mud vary confiderably, in 

 proportion to the fituation, in refped to the convenience of fale of the milk, and 

 the facility of providing the animals with fuitable kinds of food.f It is a method 



* Annals of Agriculture, vol. XXXII. 



t It is obferved in the Agricultural Survey of Middlefex, that the quantity given by each cow, on 

 an average, is nine quarts a day, equal to, per annum, 3085 quarts. The calf takes part of the milk 

 for the firft two or three days, during which time it would not be faleable ; and there is a falling oft&quot; 

 for a few days before the cow calves : thefe occafion a deduction of about eighty-five quarts, leaving 

 the annual faleable produce of each cow about 3200 quarts, which at the medium price of feventeen- 

 pence for eight quarts ftand thus : 



Cr. Produce of one Cow. 

 By milk on an aver, Q qts.per day, or 3285 



quarts per year 



Deducting . - &quot;_ 85 



quarts for lofs before and after 



Dr. Expenses of one Cow. 

 To turnips, 14 bufliels per week, s. d. 



at 2|d. per bufliel - - 2 

 Grains, 7 ditto, at 2|d, per ditto 1 

 Hay, 1 trufs and 4-tenths, at Is 9d. 



per trufs - - - 2 



Et ceteras -. 



11 



calving* 



7 



7s. per week, or per year .18 

 Balance - - 11 



At 17d. for 8 quarts .28 

 By a calf at two or three 

 days old, average 1 



6 8 



3 4 



29 10 o 



29 10 o 



leaving a balance of eleven pounds fix (hillings for intereft of ftock, loflcs in cattle, the hire or fupport 

 of horfes and waggons, rent of buildings, attendance and profit. 



