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want of other winter food. In fome coun- 

 tries they have not turneps to feed them 

 with when dry ; but in very few have they 

 a green food for fuch as give milk, that 

 will not make it tafte. In this view appears 

 the importance of any vegetable of this 

 fort, either cabbages, carrots, parfnips, pota- 

 toes, &c. The two firft, we have already 

 found, will certainly perform this office; 

 and as they are railed in perfection on 

 different foils \ the two including every fort 

 in England; no farmer need ever more be 

 under the coftly neceffity of feeding his cows 

 with fuch quantities of hay ; which is evi- 

 dently one material reafon why the profit of 

 cows is no greater. 



In the next place we find, by the pre* 

 ceding table, that three hogs are the ave- 

 rage number to ten cows ; not three fows, 

 (nor pigs,) but half, or three fourths, or 

 full grown ; keeping with deflgn to fat, 

 That this is a ftrange reduction of the pro- 

 fit of a dairy, will eafily be believed by 

 thofe who have been ufed to a better prac- 

 tice. It is a common thing in EJ/ex, Suf- 

 folk, and Norfolk, to fee a herd of two or 

 three hundred fwine, of all forts, in a farm 

 that keeps thirty or forty cows : They will 

 keep at the rate of three or four fows to 

 twelve cows, and all the pigs and hogs 

 bred by them; But this is by applying the 



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