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their herd, not reflecting, that this 

 excellent cow must be as profitable 

 to them as the purchaser ; and 

 that by this course, often repeated, 

 they gradually deteriorate, or make 

 worse the quality of their stock, by 

 the loss of all the calves which 

 such a valuable cow might have 

 brought ; and by being thus com- 

 pelled to raise stock from inferior 

 animals. 



If cows are lean when calving, 

 no management afterwards will 

 ever bring them to yield, for that 

 season, any thins like the quantity 

 of milk they would have furnished, 

 had they been kept all winter in 

 high condition. 



" Pure water is an essential ar- 

 ticle for cows. Dr. Anderson 

 says, he knew a man who acquired 

 great wealth, by attending to things 

 of this nature, and one of his prin- 

 cipal discoveries was the impor- 

 tance of having a continued supply 

 of the purest water that could be 

 obtained for his cows, and he would 

 on no account permit a single ani- 

 mal to set a foot into it, nor allow 

 it to be tainted even by the breath 

 of animals. 

 " Inflamed teats should be washed 

 with two drachms of sugar of lead 

 in a quart of water. Should tumours 

 appear apply a common warm 

 marsh with bran with a little lard. 



" To prevent cows from sucking 

 their own milk, we are informed 

 that rubbing the teats frequently 

 with the most foetid cheese that 

 can be procured has proved an ef- 

 fectual remedy." Domestic Ency- 

 cloposdia. 



COW HOUSE, that apartment 

 in a barn, in which cows and other 



neat cattle, are tied up and fed, 

 dur'ing the winter, and part of au- 

 tumn and spring. 



Farmers may think they need 

 but little teaching concerning these 

 apartments, as they have been so 

 long acquainted with them. But 

 I shall take the liberty to give them 

 the following directions, which they 

 may receive or reject, as they think 

 fit. 



hi the first place, it is of no small 

 importance that the floor under a 

 cow house be very tight, so that 

 none of the stale may be lost, which 

 is of great value as a manure,when 

 mixed with other substances. A 

 farmer would be no more blame- 

 worthy for throwing away the dung 

 than the urine of beasts, which 

 contains abundance of fertilizing 

 salts and oils. But if it be suffer- 

 ed to run through the floor, it is en- 

 tirely lost. 



The stale should be conveyed 

 through the floor into the cellar ; 

 or if there be no cellar under the 

 barn, let it pass, in constructed 

 channels through the sides to the 

 dung-heap, or stercorary ; but by 

 no means into earth or sods, laid 

 on the floor, and against the sides, 

 (as directed in a former edition of 

 this work) as the frequent repairs, 

 thus rendered necessary, would be 

 nearly equivalent to the value of 

 the urine so saved. 



When a farmer thinks himself 

 not well able to be at the expense 

 of a floor of good planks, let him 

 get a quantity of good clay, make 

 mortar, and lay a bed of it a foot 

 thick or more, for a floor ; giving 

 it a proper descent backwards,that 

 the cattle may lie dry, and raising 



