CHAP. "VII I.] COWS, SHEEP, HOGS, &C. 303 



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COWS, SHEEP, HOGS, AND POULTRY. 



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293 Cows. With respect to cows, need we 

 any other facts than those of Mr. BYRD to 

 prove how advantageous the Swedish turnip 

 culture must be to those who keep cow r s in 

 order to make butter and cheese. The greens 

 come to supply the place of grass, and to add 

 a month to the feeding on green food. They 

 come just at the time when cows, in this coun 

 try, are let go dry. It is too hard work to 

 squeeze butter out of straw and corn stalks ; 

 and, if you could get it out, it would not, 

 pound for pound, be nearly so good as lard, 

 though it would be full as white. To give 

 cows fine hay no man thinks of; and, there 

 fore, dry they must be from November until 

 March, though a good piece of cabbages added 

 to the turnip greens would keep them on in 

 milk to their calving time; or, 'till within a 

 month of it at any rate. The bulbs of Swedish 

 turnips are too valuable to give to cows; but 

 the cabbages, which are so easily raised, may 

 be made subservient to their use. 



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