JANUARY. Jj 



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 di- 

 gested. This subject demands most attention at 

 Michaelmas, 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 

 attention. The preceding remarks suppose them 

 taken from the straw-yard ; but let it be remem- 

 bered, that superior managers, about Epping, as 

 well as in North Wiltshire, &c. are cautious of 

 letting their cows at any time depend on straw. 



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

 it i< not necessary to consider whether it will an- 

 swer to give it to them when at certain high prices, 

 as many farmers are, by their leases, deprived of the 

 power of selling hay : where -this is the case, the 

 Iviy must be valued at what it costs, and not at 

 what it would sell for : this estimate is easily made. 



Rent of an acre, . 1 O 



Tithe, 3 O 



5 O 



Mowing, making, carting, and stacking, 10 O 



Manuring once in four years, 15 O 



Fences, O 1 O 



.2 14 O 

 Interest and profits, ten per cent 5 4 



2 19 4 

 After-grass, if sold, O 1O O 



Evprnce of hay, -2 9 4 



Such 



