7& KEEPING COWS. [No, 



and if he cannot, without injury to that family, find 

 other time to do it in. Shepherds, carters, jHgfeeders, 

 drovers, coachmen, cooks, footmen, printers, and nu- 

 merous others, work on the Sunaays. Theirs are 

 deemed by the law works of necessity. Harvesting 

 and haymaking are allowed to be carried on on the 

 Sunday, in certain cases ; when they are always 

 carried on by provident farmers. And I should be 

 glad to know the case which is more a case of ne- 

 cessity than that now under our view. In fact, the 

 labouring people do work on the Sunday morning in 

 particular, all over the country, at something or other, 

 or they are engaged in pursuits a good deal less reli- 

 gious than that of digging and planting. So that, as 

 to the 200 hours, they are easily found, without the loss 

 of any of the time required for constant daily labour. 

 134. And what a produce is that of a cow ! I sup- 

 pose only an average of 5 quarts of milk a day. If 

 made into butter, it will be equal every week to two 

 days of the man's wages, besides the value of the 

 skim milk : and this can hardly be of less value than 

 another day's wages. What a thing, then, is this 

 cow, if she earn half as much as the man ! I am 

 greatly under- rating her produce ; but I wish to put 

 all the advantages at the lowest. To be sure, there 

 is work for the wife, or daughter, to milk and make 

 butter. But the former is done at the two ends of 

 the day, and the latter only about once in the week. 

 And, whatever these may subtract from the labours 

 of the field, which all country women ought to be 

 engaged in whenever they conveniently can ; what- 

 ever the cares created by the cow may subtract from 

 these, is amply compensated for by the education 

 that these cares will give to the children. They will 

 all learn to milk,* and the girls to make butter. And 



* To me the follow-in? has happened within the last year. A youn? 

 man, in the country, hud agreed to be my servant; but it was found 

 that, he conld not milk ; and the bargain was set aside. About a month 

 afterwards a young man, who said he w.is a. farmer's son, anJ who 

 came from Herefordshire, offered himself to me at Kensington. "Can 

 you milk ?" He could not ; but would learn ! Ay, but in the learn- 

 ing, he might dry up my cows! What a shame to the parents of 

 use young men ! Both of them were in want of employment. Th 



