376 DAIRY, [JUNE. 



winter keeping can effect, the vast importance of 

 raising amply various crops for soiling, acquires a 

 fresh interest in the farmer's system. He will be 

 sedulous to cover his fallows with tares, clover, and 

 chicory, and apply a breadth of his very best land 

 to lucerne ; he will ever take care to have too much 

 rather than too little, as an increase of his hay- 

 stacks can in few cases prove any evil ; and as 

 these crops prepare for corn at the same time that 

 they furnish support for cattle, horses, and swine, 

 when dung is best made, they tend, in every way, to 

 keep a farm in heart. 



LONG AND SHORT DUNG. 



Many experiments have been made, not only by 

 garden farmers in the vicinity of Wimbledon, but 

 also by Mr. Paterson, comparing long fresh dung 

 with such as is well mixed and rotten, and the re- 

 sult has been very generally in favour of the long 

 clung. 



DAIRY. 



" I take it that oftentimes in very hot weather, the 

 milk in a cow's udder, much agitated by driving, 

 or running about, is in a state not very far different 

 from that carried in a churn, which frequently 

 makes the great difficulty in what is called bringing 

 the cheese, or fixing the curd in the tub or pan : 

 J have often heard dairy-women say, that it is 

 sometimes very difficult to make it come at all, and 

 instead of one hour (the time very commonly given 

 by dairy -women, in bringing the cheese) that it 

 will frequently not come in three, four, or five hours, 



and 



