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one tenth of a truss of hay of the best quality. This 

 feeding occurs before eight A. M., when the animals are 

 turned into the yard. Four hours after, they are again 

 tied up in their stalls, and have another feed of grains. 

 When the afternoon milking is over (about three P. M.), 

 they are fed with a bushel of turnips, and after the 

 lapse of an hour, hay is given them as before. This 

 mode of feeding usually continues throughout the root 

 season, or from November to March. During the 

 remaining months they are fed with grains, tares, and 

 cabbages, and a proportion of rowen or second-cut hay. 

 They are supplied regularly until they are turned out 

 to grass, when they pass the whole of the night in the 

 field. The yield is about six hundred and fifty gallons 

 a year for each cow. 



Mr. Harley, whose admirable dairy establishment has 

 been already alluded to, as erected for the purpose of 

 supplying the city of Glasgow with a good quality of 

 milk, and which contributed more than anything else to 

 improve the quality of milk furnished to all the cities 

 of Great Britain, adopted the following system of feed- 

 ing with the greatest profit: In the early part of 

 summer, young grass and green barley, the first cut- 

 ting especially, mixed with a large proportion of old 

 hay or straw, and a good quantity of salt to prevent 

 swelling, were used. As summer advanced less hay 

 and straw were given, and as the grass approached 

 ripeness they were discontinued altogether, but young 

 and wet clover was never given without an admixture 

 of dry provender. When grass became scarce, young 

 turnips and turnip-leaves were steamed with hay, and 

 formed a good substitute. As grass decreased the 

 turnips were increased, and at length became a com- 

 plete substitute. As the season advanced a large pro- 

 portion of distillers' grains and wash was given with 

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