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may repose in comfort, and with their loins dry 

 a matter of great consequence to their health. 



The ANNUAL CONSUMPTION of food per cow, of grass 

 and hay, if turned to grass, is from one acre to an acre 

 and a half of hay in the summer, and from a ton to a 

 ton and a half of hay in the winter. A cow may he 

 allowed two pecks of carrots per day. The grass 

 heing cut and carried, will economize it full one 

 third. 



The ANNUAL PRODUCT of a good fair dairy cow, 

 during several months after calving, and either sum- 

 mer or winter, if duly fed and kept in the latter sea- 

 son, she will render an average of seven pounds of 

 butter per week, from five to three gallons of milk per 

 day. Afterwards, a weekly average of three or four 

 pounds of butter from barely half the quantity of 

 milk. It depends on the constitution of the cow, 

 how nearly she may be milked to the time of her 

 calving, some giving good milk until within a week 

 or two of that period, others requiring to be dried 

 eight or nine weeks previously. 



I have heard of truly wonderful quantities of but- 

 ter, made from the milk of a single cow in seven 

 days ; but I have never been fortunate enough to ob- 

 tain one that would produce more than twelve 

 pounds per week, although I have had a Yorkshire 

 cow which milked seven gallons per day, yet never 

 made five pounds of butter in one week. In 1790, 

 residing at Sudbury Green, near Harrow, a servant 

 whom I bad from a farmer in the neighbourhood, in- 

 formed me of a long-horned cow on that farm, from 

 the milk of which given in seven days, was weighed 



