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CHAPTER V 



SMALL HOLDINGS. II 



We now come to another type of a five acre 

 holding. In this instance Hve stock play 

 an important part, and in consequence it 

 is essential to supply them with as large a 

 quantity of home-grown food as possible. 

 Our suggestion is that two cows, a breeding 

 sow, turkeys, and poultry should be kept, 

 for the sale of milk, or butter — as may be 

 preferred — pigs, eggs, and poultry. Two 

 acres might be devoted to grass, one 

 acre being reserved for pasture and the 

 other for mowing in alternate years. As 

 this area would be insufficient for the 

 cows, we would add half an acre of 

 lucerne in those districts where this crop 

 will grow successfully, an acre of oats for 

 straw and corn, with seeds consisting of 

 a mixture of clover and suitable grasses, 

 an acre of cabbage and roots, leaving half 

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