ADVICE FOR LACKLAND 



should be in drills and kept hoed the first sea- 

 son)— will yield an enormous amount of food 

 material, and if convenient to the stall, your 

 children will delight in binding it up in little 

 sheaves for "Moolly." If such a bit of 

 ground be so situated as to admit of an occa- 

 sional sprinkling with liquid manure, five 

 good cuts in a season may be safely counted 

 on ; nor do I know any summer herbage which 

 cows love better. Remember furthermore, 

 that the lucerne, as well as corn fodder, is 

 improved by a half day's wilting before being 

 fed. In winter, the carrots and mangel 

 wurtzel will become available; both of which 

 any cow may be taught to love, (if teaching 

 be necessary,) by giving them a good sprink- 

 ling of meal. In the change from summer to 

 winter diet, and from winter to summer, it 

 must be remembered that all sudden changes 

 from great succulence to dry food, or vice 

 versa, is to be most cautiously avoided. 

 Lack of care on this score, is the secret of half 

 the cow ailments. 



"If I were to lay down a pleasant and pro- 

 ductive winter dietary for your Alderney, it 

 would be a peck of sliced roots in the morn- 

 ing, not forgetting a lock of sweet hay; at 

 noon, a quart or two of brewer's grains and 



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