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Up to their horns; that is by no means the inquiry; 

 but there cannot be a doubt of their yielding a 

 much greater profit, which is the only point of 

 consequence. In natural grass, they will eat, spoil, 

 and trample a great breadth ; in exceeding good 

 grass, an acre a head at least ; but if your lucern 

 is good, one acre will feed three or four cows 

 amply. Such a state of the case, at once shews 

 that the product of the cows has little to do in the 

 inquiry : it is the clear profit alone that should bo 

 considered. 



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

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

 larly mown every day; 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 iifty divisions, according to its growth ; 

 one to be mown every day, and the cattle so pro- 

 portioned, that they may cat it regularly. This 

 will save trouble, and make the proportion between 

 the cattle and their food to be discovered with the 

 greater accuracy; the lucern, if well managed, and 

 on good land, may be cut four times. 



THE DAIRY. , 



Now the business of the dairy is in full operation : 

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

 business. Unless he has a very diligent -and in- 

 dnstridus wife, who sees minutely to her dairy, or 

 a most honest, diligent, and careful house- keeper 



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