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her grem food twice or three times,) will keep her 

 until August, when the cabbages (of the large drum 

 head kind) will be fit for use ; afterwards the leaves 

 of the mangel wlirzel will be a most valuable kind of 

 food untill the end of October, from which time its 

 roots with the oaten straw and hay are to be used 

 until the following May. The rejected clover, cab- 

 bage, and mangel wurzel leaves will support a pig, 

 and a sheep or two confined in a small yard, or at the 

 end of the clover season, tethered on the clover ley. 

 According to this simple mode, a poor man may every 

 year have half an acre of potatoes, and half an acre 

 of oats, with carrots, parsnips and turnips, for the 

 maintenance of his family, besides feeding a cow or 

 two, (in which case one of them may be serviceable 

 occasionally for car or plough,) which will give him 

 milk and butter all the year roimd ; a pig, and one or 

 two sheep. — Let me fairly calculate the produce of 

 the two acres: 



40 bis. of Potatoes at 5s. per ^10 



6 bis. of Oats at 10s. per .3 



Milk, 6 quarts per day at 2d. for 363 days 18 5 



Sheep and Pig „^ 3 



Flax — — 1 10 



Bees .^^ .„^ 



Deduct- 



Loss on selling out a stripper and buying 



new milch cow 



every year 



4 bis. seed potatoes 

 7 stone of seed oats „^ 



10 lbs. of seed clover „^ 



Horse-hire ,,^ ..^ 



Rent and taxes „^ 



Mangel wurzel and garden seeds 



