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FARMING FOR LADIES. [chap. xs. 



There is, also, a collar much used on the 

 Continent, which is slung between two posts, 

 as here represented ; but _ 



many farmers use the 

 simpler mode of using 

 nothing more than a halter 

 buckled round the cow's 

 neck, and hooked to a 

 chain which is mortised into the manger, and 

 is long enough to give her liberty to rub and 

 lick herself, and move about in her stall. 



The next point is the dairy-house, of which 

 many florid descriptions have been given of 



