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be used in proper season. Beginning with October ; till 

 January, the cows will be feeding on grass, carrots, 

 parsnips, and hay ; till April, on carrots, mangold wurzel, 

 and hay ; till June, on mangold wurzel, rye, rye-grass, 

 vetches, and hay ; during summer, on grass in the fields, 

 lucerne, &c. The only difficulty will be in getting the 

 wurzel after Italian rye-grass and vetches ; this must be 

 done by spade ; and if each day, the piece mown be 

 manured, dug, and planted with young plants from a seed- 

 bed, I do not anticipate much difficulty. In addition to 

 this stock, two horses will be kept, and food must be 

 provided, or displaced, for them by the purchase of 40Z. 

 worth of oats, meal, &c. It is plain that other crops might 

 have a place in the scheme. Cabbages which admit of 

 transplanting in a forward stage of growth from seed beds 

 to any land from which the crop has just been taken will 

 ~be certain to have a place on such a dairy farm. 



These instances will be considered cases of high farming ; 

 and the ordinary experience of dairy farmers, where only 

 one cow is kept to every 3 or even 4 acres of pasture, is 

 more generally improved upon in a less vigorous way by 

 the cultivation of a few acres of roots, so as to economise 

 the winter's consumption of hay, render less hay-making 

 necessary, and make more acres of the pasture available 

 for summer feeding ; thus enabling the keeping of more 

 cows on summer feeding of grass, which is the most pro- 

 ductive of milk. 



A large produce from the cabbage might be obtained by 

 two crops being taken in rapid succession from the same land, 

 viz. a crop of an early sort, planted as soon as the mowing 

 of the vetches allows the land to be manured and worked ; 

 and then a crop of the larger "Drumhead" sort dibbled 



