54 i Cultivation of Graft Land.~~-l)alrying.-][I&king (if Chcefe* 



that &quot; in thefe applications they are better than any other article of food within the 

 farmer s command, that is to be had equally cheap ; and by means of keeping a 

 number of breeding fows, proportioned to this ufe of the milk and whey of the 

 dairy, and making a proper provifion for the other fort of hogs, fo that they need 

 not rob this application, the moft profit poffible will be made of thefe important 

 objects to the farmer, by his cows and fvvine.&quot;* In this fyftem of management it 

 is of vaft advantage to have the hog-fties convenient to the dairy, with fuitablc 

 funk citterns, properly formed for the reception and retention of the milk, whey, 

 &c., which mould be conveyed to them by pipes from the lip of the cheefe-prefs, 

 and a receiver on the outfide of the dairy or fcalding-room, To that everything 

 may be taken away without the labour of being carried,-]- and nothing be wafted. 

 Mr. Abdy, in fpeaking of the butter-dairies of Epping, remarks, that the farmers 

 there buy pigs at four or five months old, (which in the year 1788 coft about i8s. 

 a piece,) and keep them on fkimmed milk for the fpace of a month, and then fell 

 them at the profit of about 6s. The proportion in which they are kept is about 

 that of one to every three cows in milk j which, as their long-horned Derbyfhire 

 breed of cows moftly continue to milk for nine months, will be in the ratio of 

 three pigs to each cow, or eighteen fhillings, but at the prefent prices more than 

 thirty Shillings. 



The encouragement of the dairy is on the whole ftrongly recommended, but only on condition that 

 a different fort of management be adopted from that now praftifed, in refpeft to the feeding of the 

 cows, which are almoft universally depaftured in the fields both fummer and winter; in confequence 

 of which, the dung produced even by a large dairy is trifling indeed ; whence arifes a manifeil declen- 

 fion in the fertility of the land, and a grazing farm may be diftinguimed at a great diftance from a 

 fdairy one. &quot; In this exhaufted ftate (fays the author) the dairy land muft remain, unlcfs a different 

 yftem of management be fuccefsfully inculcated.&quot; It is therefore fuggefted that all dairy farms mould 

 be accompauied with a due proportion of arable, as perhaps a. fourth part, for the purpofe of raiting 

 various kinds of crops as winter food, fuch as have been noticed; and that proper ftalls and bartons 

 be creeled as a refidence for the cows during the winter months, in which they may be foiled witk 

 he.fe productions. 



* Annals of Agriculture, vol. XXXII, t Ibid, 



