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take up their regular summer quarters in the build 

 ing I have roughly indicated. From the first to the 

 tenth of June, there may be heavy cuttings of winter 

 rye ; from the tenth of June to the twentieth, the 

 lucerne (than which no better soiling crop can be 

 found) is in full season ; after the twentieth, clover 

 and orchard grass are in their best condition, and 

 retain their succulence up to the first week in July, 

 when, in ordinary seasons, the main reliance maize 

 which was sown in mid- April, is fit for the scythe. 

 Succeeding crops of this, keep the mangers of the 

 cows full, up to an early week in October. After- 

 ward may come cuttings of late-sown barley, or the 

 leaves of the Mangel, or carrot-tops, with which, as 

 a bonne bouche, tfie cattle are withdrawn to their 

 winter quarters, for their dietary of cut-feed, oil-cake, 

 occasional bran and roots. 



They leave behind them in their summer banquet- 

 ing house, a little Rhigi of fertilizing material not 

 exposed to storms, neither too dry nor too moist, and 

 of an unctuous fatness, which will make sundry sur- 

 rounding fields, in the next season, carry a heavier 

 burden than ever of purple Mangel, or of shining 

 maize-leaves. 



I perceive, too, very clearly, in furtherance of the 

 illustration, that one acre will produce as much nu- 

 tritive food, under this system, as four acres under 



