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and trample a great breadth ; in exceeding good 

 grass, perhaps, an acre a head at least ; but, if 

 . your lucerne is good, one acre will feed three or 

 four cows amply. Such a state of the case at once 

 shews, that the produtt of the cows has little to do in 

 the inquiry : it is the clear <profit alone that should 

 be considered. 



In the feeding of horses, oxen, or cows, with 

 lucerne, let me observe, that it should be regu- 

 larly mown everyday ; and the best way of carrying 

 it to the stable, will be in a small skeleton-cart 

 drawn by one horse, and made for the purpose. 

 In the cutting it, the plantation should be marked 

 into forty or fifty divisions, according to its growth ; 

 one to be mown every day, or every two days, and 

 the cattle so proportioned, that they may eat it 

 regularly. This will save trouble, and make the 

 proportion between the cattle and their food be 

 discovered with the greater accuracy : the lucerne, 

 if well managed, may be cut four times. 



THE DAIRY. 



Now begins the hurry of the dairy-maid's work : 

 this is one of the most ticklish parts of the farmer's 

 business. Unless he has a very diligent and in- 

 dustrious wife, who sees minutely to her dairy, or 

 a most honest, diligent, and careful house-keeper 

 to do it for him, he will assuredly lose money by his 

 dairy : trusted to common servants, it will not pay 

 charges. The dairy-maid must be up ever) morn- 

 ing by four o'clock, or she will be backward in her 

 business. At five, the cows must be milked, and 



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