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results are ahead of the estimate. Store hogs can be fed with 

 turnips and mangolds from early winter to late spring, when 

 other green provender can be grown till time to fat them ; and 

 they increase the manure heap wonderfully. This word manure 

 ought to be the first and last thing looked after, as it is the 

 source of all good farming. 



There should not be over half a bushel of roots daily to each 

 cow ; and if you have no grain to give with them, better sell 

 enough to buy a little, as one pint a day will check any tendency 

 to scours. It should be understood that too much of a good 

 thing is as bad as not enough. 



Dairy stock fed in the manner as above will come out in the 

 spring in such condition as to be able to go right to work in 

 the pastures with a vigorous and healthy system, and produce 

 a much greater quantity of milk than those which are fed on 

 dry and rough food all winter, and turned out into a bleak lot 

 even when the thermometer is below zero in some instances. I 

 have seen some this season all four feet in the space of a foot. 

 "Why can we not all see that a cow well wintered is half 

 summered ? 



Pastures should be somewhat rolling in surface, and covered 

 with a sufficient quantity of different sorts of grass that will 

 furnish them all the season ; but it is safest for everybody to 

 plant a piece of sweet corn, off of which they can gather for 

 family use enough, and that matures before all is cut for fod- 

 der. Tliis will help out the pastures in the heat of July and 

 August, till the sweet fall feed springs up again ; for pastures 

 fed very short at this season do not recover again before the 

 next year. The more extensive the pastures, provided they 

 are not too rough and dry, the better; and allow the whole 

 extent for their free use, where water can be had clear and 

 cool as possible. If the surface be too rough and rocky, pre- 

 venting improvement by otiicr cultivation, tlien apply plaster 

 or guano, in such quantities as you can afford, and it should 

 be afforded if to be kept in a state to fully supply the cows ; 

 while in them the amount left by the cattle cannot be enough 

 to return equal to what they have taken off, as they are generally 

 yarded during the night, (or kept in the barn is best,) and thus 

 save all the voidings where it will make the most manure. 



