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pig should not be kept in the manure yard. If a cow 

 needs to be kept clean for the sake of the sweetness and 

 purity of the milk and butter, a pig should be kept 

 equally clean for the sake of the meat; for a pig is sub- 

 ject to all the conditions in this respect that a cow is, and 

 pure wholesome pork is as desirable as pure wholesome 

 milk and butter can be. 



For preparing the feed for the cow a small-sized fod- 

 der cutter should be procured, one of the copper-strip 

 roller kind is perhaps the most desirable and easily kept 

 in order, and the fodder should be cut and fed with the 

 meal. In the summer the feeding should be pasture 

 or grass cut and carried to a small yard, and the daily al- 

 lowance of meal may be given mixed with the fresh grass 

 or some of the waste of the garden and the house. Par- 

 ings of potatoes, turnips, pea pods, pea vines, and the 

 clippings of the la^^n, will all afford useful food for a 

 cow. In country places where half the roadway belongs 

 to the owner of the lot, and the public have only a right 

 of way and passage over the road, the roadsides may 

 be kept in clover and grass and afford a large amount of 

 feeding. The author's residence comprised three acres 

 of land with roads on three sides, in all taking up nearly 

 1,000 feet in length and twenty-five in width of useful 

 land not required for the use of the public. This made 

 up more than half an acre of land, from which suflacient , 

 grass and hay were cut to feed a cow for half the year. 

 The clippings of the lawn of three-quarters of an acre 

 furnished quite an equal quantity of the best of fodder, 

 young grass of the most nutritious kind. The mowing 

 of an acre or more of orchard, the fodder of sweet corn, 

 and the spare apples, pears, beets, peas, carrots and po- 

 tatoes from the garden, with the grass and hay, all pro- 

 vided sufficient feeding, with the half bushel of corn 

 meal and bran weekly, to feed two Jersey cows which 

 yielded over twenty pounds of butter every week in add;- 



