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COW. 



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Your cow will require the following 4 ' trousseau 



One five-gallon stone churn ............................. $1 .25 



One and a half dozen milk pans, at $2 ................... 3.00 



One milk pail and strainer .............................. 60 



One butter bowl (wooden) ............................... 50 



One paddle and print ....................... ' ............. 20 



Two wooden pails for feed ............................... 40 



One card ................................................ 25 



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 Cost of a good cow ................................. 40.00 



Interest at 6 per cent ............................. .$ 3.69 



Any ordinary family will take from a milkman at least one 

 quart a day. We in Ottawa pay eight cents per quart, making per 

 year (365 x 8,) $29.20. 



It is a very poor cow that will not average five pounds of butter 

 a week for forty weeks, and that at twenty-five cents per pound, 

 that is 40 (weeks) x 5 (pounds), x 25 (cents), equals 50 (dollars). 



So the account stands thus : 



Butter ............................................... $50.00 



Milk .................................................. . 29.20 



"$79.20 

 Cost of food for one year ..................... $47.00 { ro fiq 



Interest on cow and trousseau ................ 3.69) 



Profit ............................................. .$28.51 



LAND AND CROPS. 



I have found that two acres of land is the least possible area 

 that will provide cow-food for the entire year, and that should be 

 divided thus : One acre for hay, the other for fodder and mangels. 

 If you have no land already seeded down, plow up your acre, sow 

 clover and timothy, six pounds, of each. In May, when the grass 

 has fairly started, top-dress it with two bushels of land plaster; 

 if you can apply it just before a rain it is the best time. The first 

 year you will have all clover hay, and it must be cut before the 

 second blossom comes ; if not cut early enough, the stalks become 

 tough and woody, and are wasted by the cow. The second year, 

 if top-dreseed in the fall with the manure collected during the 

 summer, you will have a fine crop of timothy, and if the land 

 was good for anything you can cut hay from it for three years by 

 giving it a little manure every fall. As early as the ground will 

 admit, sow some peas and oats ; one bushel of each will plant 

 one-third of an acre. Peas do well on old sod, and are the best 

 crop to plant on new ground. In about six weeks you can com- 

 mence cutting it for fodder, and it should give the cow two good 



