CHAPTEE VII. 



GENERAL MANAGEMENT. 



Dairying and Grazing Profitable Use of Milk Cropping of a Dairy Farm. 



Dairying or Grazing. A tenant of grass land has 

 the choice of many modes of turning it to account. If it 

 be very rich grazing ground, he may devote it wholly to 

 the feeding of heef : if very poor grass land with some 

 arahle attached, he may devote it wholly to the rearing of 

 young stock, bringing up five to ten calves to every cow he 

 keeps. Under more ordinary circumstances he may keep 

 either a butter dairy or a cheese dairy ; or it may be his 

 interest to use the milk in fattening veal. The nature of 

 the market for his produce will probably determine his 

 choice. It is no part of our plan to discuss the relative 

 merits of grazing and dairying here, but there is one point 

 of the comparison which ought to be alluded to, and that 

 is the immense draught made upon the resources of the 

 land by any system which involves the annual sale of the 

 milk, either whole or manufactured, as the sole produce of 

 the land. 



Milk contains a good deal of those parts of the earth of 

 soils on which their fertility very much depends. As the 

 sole food of the young, it feeds their bones as well as their 

 flesh, and in its mineral part, therefore, is to be found the 

 mineral part of bones, as well as the alkaline and other 



