108 KEEPING ONE COW. 



to them by keeping them free from weeds, and the surface of the 

 ground loose and fresh. A good yield would give an average of 

 about six hundred and fifty bushels to the acre, which will be 

 eighty bushels for the plot of twenty square rods, and allowing 

 the cow one-third of a bushel per day for the eight months of dry 

 food. The roots should be secured from frost by placing them in 

 the cellar or in deep pits well protected. The hundred rods which 

 is to be devoted to the winter feeding, must be put down to oats 

 at the same time, and exactly in the same manner as the first ten 

 rods for summer soiling. Cut these when in their most succulent 

 condition, which will be probably from the fifth to the tenth of 

 July. Cure them well, and house or stack them in a suitable 

 manner. The land having been again suitably prepared, the pre- 

 ceding crop must be at once followed by Hungarian grass, a 

 bushel and a half to the acre, which will be fit for cutting as 

 soon as the head is formed, which will be in about six weeks from 

 the time of sowing. Cure it as far as possible in the cock, which 

 will render it more nutritious. 



The one hundred square rods being again cleared and put in 

 order during the autumn, sow winter rye at the rate of three 

 bushels to the acre. This will be ready to cut in the spring, and 

 will afford green food much earlier than in any other way for 

 soiling. If there is a surplus of any of the green crops, convert 

 it into hay for winter use. 



From the two croppings of the one hundred square rods, treated 

 in the above manner, a fair yield will be a ton and a quarter of 

 oats cured as hay, with an equal amount of Hungarian grass. 

 Thus we have two and one-half tons of fodder, which will be 

 amply sufficient for one cow through the eight months in 

 which she is not receiving the green crops, allowing her the 

 amount of hay per day which we have stated as necessary in con- 

 junction with the roots and grain, in the quantities before men- 

 tioned. 



Of course, where the feeding commences in April, if the place 

 be taken in that month, food must be bought by the owner to last 

 until the summer soiling in July. In the succeeding year, how- 

 ever, the crop of winter rye will come in early, to be used in con- 

 junction with the dried fodder of the previous summer. 

 COW STABLED IN THE TOWN. 



Again, there are cases where a single cow may be kept with 

 profit and advantage, and that, too, in perfect health, without the 

 agency of land, in the immediate suburbs of a town or city, or 



