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for the whey may be appropriated to the feed- 

 ing of pigs, though it may eafily be conceived 

 not to be fo nutritive as milk. We will allow 

 two tons of hay for the keep of a cow for twen- 

 ty-five weeks, and that two tons of hay would 

 fell for eight pounds. The cow earns per week 

 fix Ihillings, which amounts to feven pounds 

 ten Ihillings-, and for the hay flie has eaten fhe 

 will give back two loads of manure, the value 

 of which, at five {hillings per load, added to 

 the feven pounds ten (hillings, makes a com- 

 plete balance to the price of the two tons of 

 hay. One man may very well look after a fcore 

 of cows : his wages will be nine fhillings per 

 week, which is not quite five-pence halfpenny 

 per cow. But not to be over nice, wc will 

 throw afide the fradlions, and reckon the ex- 

 pence at fix-pence per cow per weeks and al- 

 low the man ten ihillings wages, the proportion 

 of which to each cow will be twelve fniilings 

 and fix-pence for the twenty-five weeks. On the 

 other hand, the cutting and truffing the hay 

 is worth two Ihillings and fix-pence per ton: 

 and the carrying to market is worth ten (hil- 

 lings. The expences, therefore, on two tons of 



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