16-2 COLONEL HANGER TO 



OF SPLIT BEANS PER DAY ; OATS IN THE 

 STRAW, ONE THIRD ; TWO THIRDS BARLEY 

 OR WHEAT STRAW; THE OATS IN THE 

 STRAW ; AND STRAW TO BE CUT, IN A 

 CUTTING MACHINE, AS SHORT AS POSSIBLE, 

 NOT ABOVE A QUARTER OF AN INCH LONG. 

 Particularly NO HAY WHATEVER WITH THIS 

 IS NECESSARY. 



WhatFarmers* 

 Daughters 



rheyno"wrie?^ Ill my youtliful days, farmers' daughters 

 put their re|,d cloaks on, and the milking- 

 pails on their shoulders, went out before 

 dawn of day into the field, to milk the 

 COWS, and before they had gone a hundred 

 yards, generally split a cow - turd with 

 their feet, — but now, if one of them look 

 even out at the door, the servant cries out, 

 *' Miss, pray do not go out, you will wet 

 your feet, and catch cold." Formerly, 

 when the lasses came home from milking, 

 they had a rasher of bacon, broiled on the 

 coals, for breakfast, and a pint of mild ale, — • 

 washed their face at the pump, and rubbed 



