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the grass ground, but cut and given her in a rack in her hovel, where she has a 

 plat of about 18 square perches to range in. I keep but this cow, nor have I had 

 any other since I had her. She is seven years old, and has had five calves; has 

 been in my possession for two years. 



Consumed much less food this year than the year before. 



Food and Treatment. 



Summer season fed on clover, rye-grass, lucern, and carrots, three or four 

 times a day, and at noon time about four gallons of grains, and two of bran mixed 

 together ; always observing to give her no more food than she eats up clean. 

 Winter season fed with hay, bran, and grains, mixed as before stated, feeding her 

 often, viz. five or six times a day, as I see proper, giving her food when milking ; 

 keeping the manger clean where she is fed with grains ; not to let it get sour ; wash 

 her udder at milking times with cold water, winter and summer. Never tie her up ; 

 lays in or out as she likes; particularly careful to milk her regularly and clean. 

 Milch cows are often spoiled for want of patience at the latter end of 

 milking them. 



One man would attend ten cows dirough the year (with the exception of an 

 assistant at milking times). Feeding milch cows as above stated, they will at all 

 times be in good condition fit for the butcher, if an accident should happen. There 

 will be no ground trampled and food spoiled by cattle running over a vast track of 

 land. I think cattle may be fattened by the same mode of feeding with much 

 advantage; one fourth part of the land would feed them, a great quantity of manure 

 made, and the beast fatten much sooner. Cattle so fed, have nothing to do but 

 fill themselves and lie down to rest. No labouring for their food. I fattened the 

 two cows I had before this, and made them very good meat in about seven weeks,. 

 (I found it to ansv/er, although I bought the food at a dear rate), giving them a 

 little ground barley or oats mixed with the grains and bran. I think cows would 

 nearly double (in the course of the season) their quantity of milk and butter by 

 following the above plan. It is unnecessary for a cow to go dry long before she 

 calves, 'i'hc thing will tell for itself. When her milk changes brackish, she 

 should then be dried off; that may be, in three, four, or five weeks before .she 

 calves. Milch cows seldom go dry before, unless it is from neglect, poverty^ 



