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again, ox flrop her, asthemilk-noaids fay. The 

 cow by fuch means will increafe her milk ; for 

 nature will abundantly fupply the lofs if the 

 animal has plenty of food. 



It is not unufual for a cow to gargle in the 

 time of her giving milk, which malady arifes 

 folely from bad milking; for the gargle is a 

 congeflion of milk in the udder; which in ge- 

 neral will give way to any of the common fo- 

 mentations. The cow, although certainly 

 more valuable than the race-horfe, is not fo 

 much the care of the prefent age ; nor does 

 the modern parent bring up his daughter to 

 the bufinefs of a dairy or houfehold work. If 

 he can afford any education to the child in- 

 tended for a fervant, his money is fpent in 

 teaching her to drefs hair, and to acquire a 

 little fmattcring of the French tongue; and in- 

 ftead of being qualified for a farmer's wife, mifs 

 dallies into the world a lady's maid ; and if fhe 

 has a tolerable face or perfon, fhe foon chan- 

 ges her fituation. 



Having* endeavoured to ihow the necelTity 

 of milking the cow perfectly clean, I fhall fay 

 a few words concerning the dairy where the 



milk 



