34 cows. [JAX. 



leaves must be picked off, giving the cows nothing but 

 the heart of the cabbage : the refuse leaves will be 

 eat clean up by the lean cattle. The great expence 

 of winter feeding cows with hay alone, eats up half 

 the profit of the dairy, even if none be given till 

 they calve; for supposing them to calve in January 

 or February, there remains three or four months for 

 that food. 



If the dairy consists of more than one or two 

 cows kept for the use of the farmer's family, the 

 system of feeding them becomes an object of 

 considerable importance, and should be well digest- 

 ed. This subject demands most attention at Mi- 

 chaelmas, when all arrangements of stock take 

 place. In the Calendar for October, it will be par- 

 ticularly considered ; but as in January the cows are 

 probably calving, their food demands a careful at- 

 tention. The preceding remarks suppose them taken 

 from the straw-yard ; but let it be remembered, 

 that superior managers, especially about Epping, 

 are rautious of letting their cows at any time de- 

 1 on straw. 



If no other food be provided, they have hay only; 

 not necessary to consider whether it will an- 

 swer U) ui\v it to them when at certain high prices, 

 a- many farmers arc, by their leases, deprived of the 

 f selling liny : where tills is the case, the 

 hay must be valued at what it costs, ;r,i;l not at what 



estimate i made. 



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