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the artificial grasses — such as lucerne, sain- 

 foin, and clover — also enrich the milk, if 

 used green, but are not so desirable as mea- 

 dow-grass when made into hay. 



With regard to what has been stated re- 

 specting the winter-feeding of the Alderneys, 

 we should say, that if roots — always except- 

 ing cabbages and turnips — can be procured, 

 they should be given along with hay ; but 

 gentlemen seldom have sufficient garden- 

 ground to grow as much as a cow will eat. 

 She is, therefore, generally left to hay alone, 

 and this dry food lessens the quantity of the 

 milk : the quality is however good ; but if 

 carrots and parsnips can be added, both 

 quantity and quality will be improved. As 

 they can, however, be only rarely got from 

 the green grocers at any reasonable price, we 

 should recommend giving every day a copious 

 bran mash, into which should be put a quart 

 of bean or pea meal, or about three pounds of 

 bruised linseed oil-cake, together with a small 

 handful of salt. There is, indeed, a preju- 

 dice very generally entertained against the 

 fatting of oxen upon oil-cake, and we admit, 

 that if carried too far it may injure the flavour 



