CHAP. II.] RUT A BAGA CULTURE. 1?1 



ought to be the case. 1 had a cow once that 

 made more than two pounds of butter during 

 the week, and had a calf on the Saturday night. 

 Cows always ought to be milked to the very day 

 of their calving, and during the whole of the time 

 of their suckling their calves. But, " sufficient 

 unto the day is the evil thereof." Let us leave 

 this matter till another time. Having, however, 

 accidentally mentioned coivs, [ will just ob 

 serve, that in the little publication of Mr. CRAMP, 

 mentioned above, as having been printed by the 

 Board of Agriculture, it was stated and the 

 proof given, that his single cow gave him, clear 

 profit, for several successive years, more than 

 fifty pounds sterling a year, or upwards of 

 two hundred and twenty dollars. This was 

 clear profit ; reckoning the food and labour, 

 and taking credit for the calf, the butter, and 

 for the skim-milk at a penny a quart only. Mr. 

 CRAMP'S was a Sussex cow. Mine were of the 

 Alderney breed. Little, small-boned things ; 

 but, two of my cows, fed upon three quarters 

 of an acre of grass ground, in the middle of my 

 shrubbery, and fastened to pins in the ground, 

 which were shifted twice a day, made three hun 

 dred pounds of butter from the 28th of March 

 to the 27th of June. This is a finer country 

 for x cattle than England; and yet, what do 1 

 see! 



133. This difficulty about feeding sow& with 



