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lands. The mangel tops and kohl rabi, with whatever 

 cabbages may have been planted, supply the cows with green 

 food till after Christmas, the rabi being always considered a 

 bonnebouche. On the remainder of this ten-acre field, winter 

 barley and tares are grown for the horses. By good cultivation, 

 heavy manuring, and changing of crops about, the field con- 

 tinues to do very well for green and root crops, although it has 

 been growing them now for a good many years. There is, in 

 fact, a lot of virtue in farmyard manure, when it has been made 

 from cake and corn ; for my own part, I think such manure, 

 made from a liberal consumption of decorticated cotton-cake, 

 will produce better crops of meadow grass, whatever it may do 

 of root crops, than perhaps any other kind of manure, liquid or 

 solid. 



A Perfect Little Dairy. 



There is a perfect little dairy across the road from the build- 

 ings, a dairy with a thatched roof and overhanging eaves. 

 Probably a thatched roof is about as good as anything can be 

 for a dairy : it keeps out the heat of the sun and helps to 

 regulate the temperature inside the room. The dairy at the 

 College Farm is tastefully finished with Minton's tiles, slate 

 benches, and porcelain milk-pans that are white, and smooth, 

 and clean, and very attractive to look upon, as well as pleasant 

 to use. They are not much wanted nowadays, however, for 

 almost all the milk is sold : and, indeed, if it were not, the 

 cream is obtained to greater advantage by a separator. The 

 dairy, however, is there, and may be used if it is wanted. It 

 was equipped with pans for cream-setting before the separator 

 became such a potent instrument of the dairy, and many of them 

 perhaps will never be wanted again, there, for the purpose. 

 Cream-raising in pans will never become wholly a thing of the 

 past, but henceforth the separator will be king in a large butter 

 dairy, or in an establishment where milk and cream are pro- 

 duced and sold. This is not the only dairy standing idle, so 

 to speak, in the country. 



In many dairying counties there are scores and hundreds 



