Cultivation of Grafs Land. Dairying. Making of Checfe. 543 



days three gallons, for other ninety days one gallon ; for the next ninety days a 

 quarter of a gallon, and for the remainder of the year none, making in all three 

 hundred and eighty-four gallons ; which, confidering that in every dairy a certain 

 quantity of cream is abflradlcd before the milk is put into the cheefe-tub, it may 

 be fuppofed, when converted into one-meal or two-meal cheefes, to make little 

 more or lefs than 355 Ibs. as has been juft ftated.&quot; 



It is obvious that, in both the butter and cheefe-dairy, a great part of the 

 profit muft ncceffarily arife from the keeping and fattening of hogs. In this in 

 tention the fkim-milk, butter-rnilk, and cheefe-whey, mould be converted to the 

 purpofe for which they are the moft adapted, which would feem to be that of 

 fupporting fows that have pigs, and rearing young pigs. It has been obferved 



The following eftimate, made at that time, of the expenfes and produce of a dairy, where both the 

 land and cows were oitlicjirst quality, may in Come degree fliow the advantage of this management : 



Dairy Twenty Cows. 



Dr. I. s. d. Cr. I. s. d.- 



To two milkers, forty weeks, at 3s per wk. 6 By ninety hundred of cheefe, at 



To a man s labour, winter ferving cattle, 45s.*&quot; V - 202 10 O 



changingtheirpafture,fellingcheefe,.c. 400 By calves - - - 15 O 

 To dairy women, 4s. 6d. per week - 11 14 By butter - - - 10 

 To dairy utenfils, candles, fait, brufties, By hogs - - - 25 O 



mops, and all other articles - 4-60 &quot; 



To arnetta - 1 O 252 10 & 



To rent, thirty acres of fummer pafture, 



40s. - - - . - 60 00* 



To flamming- the fame, and making fi-x 



tons of bay - - - - 3 O 1 



To rent of fifteen acres mown ground, 40s. 30 ft 

 To making the hay, fay thirty tons, at 



12s. per acre - - - - $ 

 To tithe, taxes, &c. fay - 10 



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To profit, intereft of money, and the 



decreafing value of cows included 113 10 0&quot; 



N. B. A large dairy might be kept for 25s. per cow. 

 * At tbis time (January 1797) cheese of last year s making is worth three pounds per hundred 



