OUT-OF-TOWN PLACES 



seen upon the green orchards near to St. 

 Hiliers, (Isle of Jersey,) scores of them, each 

 cropping its Httle circlets of turf as closely 

 and cleanly as if it had been shorn. In way 

 of convenience for this service, it is well to 

 have an old harrow tooth with a ring adjusted 

 to its top, and revolving freely, upon which 

 ring an iron swivel should be attached. To 

 such a fixture, easily moved, and made fast 

 in the ground by a blow or two of a wooden 

 mallet, a halter may be tied without fear of 

 any untwisting of the rope, or of any winding 

 up or other entrapment of the poor beast. I 

 give these hints because it is often convenient 

 to furnish a pet cow, from time to time, some 

 detached feeding ground, where the shrubbery 

 will not admit of free rambling; and there are 

 none whose habit is better adapted to such 

 indulgence upon the lawn than the Alderneys. 

 "If your cow be kept up constantly for 

 stall-feeding, an earthen floor is desirable, and 

 by all means a half hour's run in the barn- 

 yard of a morning. A darkened shed will be 

 a great luxury to her in fly time, and will 

 largely promote the quiet under which she 

 works out the most bountiful returns from 

 the succulent food of the garden. A bit of 

 ground in lucerne— say four rods square (it 



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