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No. VII. 



This number, if I do not err, 

 Will great advantasres confer : 

 Of yore, ere stall fed beasts were known 

 Fresh meat held half the year alone 

 Now, every month a stock supplies, 

 And hence, the farmer's profits rise. 

 No cattle starve — no waste is found. 

 Milk, meat, cheese, butter, all abound, 

 And, smiling plenty to secure. 

 Increasing dunghills give manure. 



I proceed to show, that by soiling from May to 

 August, and giving cabbages, mangel wurzel, and 

 oaten straw, with a little hay during the remaining 

 months, a milch cow may be kept the whole year on 

 a very small portion of ground. For illustration, I 

 will suppose a man to have only two acres ; let him 

 apportion it thus : — 



If he can buy a cow at May, he at once begins to 

 soil her with the clover of the cow house, and as 

 part of this crop would be withered before the cow 

 could consume it, 30 or 40 perches of it shovdd be 

 mown and saved for hay, not spread out at all but 

 made in small cocks, which should be put together 

 for the winter as soon as possible. I think that the 

 kalf acre of clover (most of which ^vilI be cut for 



