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OXEN. 



Ox-teams are maintained in winter at a much 

 Jess expence than horses ; but in summer they are 

 nearer an equality : the same reasoning is therefore 

 applicable to both. It is as advisable to soil oxen 

 on lucern as horses : they will thrive extremely 

 well on it, and at a much less expence than pas- 

 turing them in the common manner. 



COWS. 



In this month, the cows should be kept in good 

 food, that the dairy or the calves may return the 

 farmer a due product. Clover, and ray-grass that 

 has been fed off early with sheep, will suit them 

 well ; but if the clover should, as it is commonly 

 imagined to do, give the butter a taste, the varia- 

 tion of price should then be calculated, on compa- 

 rison with the convenience the farmer finds in 

 feeding with that grass. Lucern does excellently 

 for cows, and gives the butter no ill taste : it will, 

 mown and given in racks or cribs, go much farther 

 than food eaten in the field, and at the same time 

 yield an opportunity of raising much dung : a 

 point tliat ought never to be forgotten. If this 

 method is pursued, care must be taken that the 

 feeding-places are kept well littered. In this man- 

 ner the dairy or calves will not fail of proving ex- 

 tremely profitable. It is not at all necessary to 

 assert, that the cows will yield as large a produce 

 in this manner, as when turned into natural grass 



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