74 HARLEIAN SYSTEM CONFINEMENT ANECDOTE. 



I introduce the Harleian Dairy System, so styled 

 by Mr. Harley in his publication, as a sequel to the 

 practice of Mr. Cramp, and as a wholesale proof of 

 the ill effects upon the cow of constant confinement 

 within doors, an unfair practice, which nothing but 

 necessity can warrant. Mr. Harley fully establishes 

 the fact of these ruinous effects, by the acknowledg- 

 ment that no cow can endure them beyond a twelve- 

 month ; after which it is necessary to change the stock, 

 their legs being swoln, their feet sore or foundered, 

 and their flesh and milk greatly reduced. A pamphlet 

 was published upwards of twenty years since, on this 

 subject ; but the practice has never been in repute, 

 nor probably ever will be. I have already noted my 

 experience of the falling off in the cow of her quan- 

 tity of milk, in consequence of confinement. In the 

 case of a deficient quantity of herbage for the number 

 of cows, it is most profitable to cut it green for 

 them, at the same time allowing them to remain 

 abroad their due time, either upon the mown lands, 

 or a common. 



A person resident at Scawby, near Brigg, pur- 

 chased a cow, for which he paid twelve guineas : he 

 kept her twelve years, in which time she bore twelve 

 calves ; all of them were carefully reared, and sold at 

 the times' prices, and as a remarkable circumstance, 

 he sold her at last for the same price she at first cost 

 him. 



THE DISEASES OF COWS. 



The chief of these are scouring, the hoose, or 

 chronic cough, foul in the foot, loss of cud, yellows, 



