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hints because it is often convenient to furnish a pet 

 cow, from time to time, some detached feeding ground, 

 where the shrubbery will not admit of free rambling; 

 and there are none whose habit is better adapted to 

 such indulgence upon the lawn than the Alderueys. 



" If your cow be kept up constantly for stall-feed- 

 ing, an earthen floor is desirable, and by all means a 

 half hour's run in the barn yard of a morning. A 

 darkened shed will be a great luxury to her in fly 

 time, and will largely promote the quiet under which 

 she works out the most bountiful returns from the 

 succulent food of the garden. A bit of ground in 

 lucerne say four rods square (it should be in drills 

 and kept hoed the first season) will yield an enor- 

 mous amount of food material, and if convenient to 

 the stall, your children will delight in binding it up 

 in little sheaves for "Moolly." If such a bit of 

 ground be so situated as to admit of an occasional 

 sprinkling with liquid manure, five good cuts in a 

 season may be safely counted on ; nor do I know any 

 summer herbage which cows love better. Remember 

 furthermore, that the lucerne, as well as corn fodder, 

 is improved by a half day's wilting before being 

 fed. In winter, the carrots and mangel wurtzel will 

 become available ; both of which any cow may be 

 taught to love, (if teaching be necessary,) by giving 

 them a good sprinkling of meal. In the change from 



