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portion the dairy to the plantation, and never be 

 under a want of food; for lucern, mown every day 

 regularly, will carry them into October; and al- 

 though some persons have asserted that cows will 

 not give so much milk thus managed, as when they 

 range at large, and feed how and where they will, 

 It is not a matter of inquiry; because, if they give 

 less, the quantity will pay more clear profit, than 

 more in the other case: there may be some inferio- 

 rity; but the cows are kept on so small a quantity 

 of land, that there remains no comparison between 

 the methods, for profit. 



But however doubtful this matter might once 

 have been, it is so no longer ; and the experlmenlum 

 crush of the cows kept at the gaol of Lewes by Mr. 

 Win. Cramp, has decided the matter beyond all ques- 

 tion : a produce of from 50l. to 7Ol. per cow, 

 should for ever put to ^silence the silly objections 

 which have been made to this practice, and ought 

 most effectually to convince us, that the common 

 system universal in the kingdom, is, on comparison 

 with that of confinement, a most barbarous prac- 

 tice. 



THE TEAMS, 



These must be kept at work. Wheat-sawing is 

 a business in which we usually stretch a point, 

 and make the ploughs do full work. Both horses 

 and oxen should be kept this month to lucern, &c. 

 mown every day: they will work as well oji it as 

 any other food ; but, while they plough, they must 

 have oats and chaff with it; for no grass at this 



season 



