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the cattle | the health, be replaced, as it legally may aud probably summer time iu pastures, and in n winter time on bay 
ge ge рр m mrg fail of "being peri "ns nidis |; will > y А һана covering iz grouud- plan and and straw and roots, with access to both field and 
rese nd -— UN supply of t s fo shed. © 
юйгорд n o have been Ёо в extent discussed in th r London, as on many country farms a long 
dope issued by "the. Cattle Plague” Com. | | jt сч now, y etre to ds me of the case ; [t is now the этү they find iege: and, Tor their 
ter to be read in than bay, and they will adopt more 
|t ournal, 1 hope the story ay be told, without | economical r — than grozing pe ae in 
: "e you very much with figur | growing Grass. And though I bear that in the Ayles- 
This, then, is the material which has been p b ; and ss and d i 
elected during the past three months. All the doc Согхтвү PRODUCE | in the field up t now are still the rule, yet no doubt 
tary part of it lay unread until time offered for its | Lf Consi Produce 1 have not very much to | ultimately brewers' ins and cut Grass, and succu- 
arrangement а few days ago, but of course inspections вау. The herd Cows y Short |lent food of all kinds Lay in sheds, will become the 
and conversations Me been sd eK gradually horns), ab F'rocestor Cour 4 que as the ey а аге the тше within. 
jsfuencing 8 and forming th f opin which on Ње | оц Grass and hoy, with э 2r straw in ptus 
зме I believe thon to jet J- Looking at the thing | produced, according to Mr. Harrison's careful | de town or country bred, and countrymen grey en ode 
le at my own relationship to 16 records, 245,458 gallons of milk in seven years, |in contracts for the supply of milk to London dealers 
had to 535 gallons each cow per annum.—Mr. McAdam, | жо» вооп find out the cheapest way of producing it in 
T Hill, near 3 the largest quantity. 
an experienced ri mena tells ше! That way has long been studied and worked out 
bere à good witness— with sufficient previous тыл tar каш. the past Mur years в (Ау ыны) with all the carnestness which X interest inspires. 
ee and sufficient. practico | in in the work of i Mispec n his farm have dpi 530 sallone аА re Taking You will meet in London with" men who have been 
dira the Glou emis ad experience our guide: for | engaged in the business for 30 an à 40 years, with а 
e qe s being mis "еа by w every 100 acres (22 being arable, as ү К-и by Mr. | staff of servants, too, who have been in their employ 
erkani suflicie: subject a safic ent | 23 far in a district where | | almost as long. When the St. Pancras committee went 
жеры as to the heh it might х=; him, to | the average crop of meadow hay is probably 28 cwt. round to inspect the cowhouses of the oer "e 
make him at once industriously БАШ facts бу per acre, the stock kept is about 4 cows, four 2.уеа! r | con ndemn ——! all of them which were in any way 
mulo а ccept any conclusio which tbey olds, four yearlings, four calves, 20 sheep, and due fresa gj with dwelling-houses, х were aber A the 
Ж indicated. of course no one wi any previous horses, сачы in consumin power abo ni 9 v m | doo of him o to whom they a unced the decision 
knowledge of а subject comes altogether unprejudiced | The hay о rop represents perhaps rather 1 pe im with an Тө {се x to bis grandfather 
to а further study of it; but I сап unhesitatingly | 7 tons of Grass, and the aftermath (at 3 the üret а is and his father, then ais а him, both of whom 
that in Studying this partieular subject I have | ызы less than 3 tons per aere. The whole cattle | L =. "M d on the business thero before him. 
not cared one jot what the ne might be, aad uri food of the 100 acres, half the arable E being taken | “ here, too, are my children, gentlemen— 
bave had no personal en serve dur 8 | аз in Turnips and Clover, may thus ut at 900 tons | har ‘generations r inju us. It does not look as if the 
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and yield tbe best and w olesomest milk in pue] ever, is where the Grass is depastured—that ie, fed | on 
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and that they ought to be all еа outside— — thak | the calculation had had to deal witb ha case of | Шеге маре een а s long expe Mise. of aD kinds, both 
the best way of supplying а large town with milk is to | house-fed cows, it would appear that 1501.7 of prosperous and adveree—they cannot have much to 
bring it in fr ry— t is mor on- | i у, of th earn of-the best uM vto жарыу the — foad ән 
Ме, cheaper, better to carry 10 Ib. weight of milk from | meadow Grass, its equivalent, Yai "i suffice | even though. i the p рада of it be carri 
ry to the town 8 s door, than to|for ordinary г ей тал dairy cow utting, ould think it, өг their long 
-— lb. r gn "Г other food from that farm (€ 530 gallons of milk against T foni of this тач from green fle T ut indeed 
cowhou: u here to M reen food, we have 1 10. of т nili to eve y 11 ог1 2 ]b. oem lty at all. Even in the midst of сей n fie ids 
^ into the 10 lb. ef ilk which it wil produce—an 4 Grass, or as nearly as p f milk cowkeeper finds it the gl policy, for 
&nally, that Londoners ure ole De d with milk tian any | to every Чоп of hay. If the consuming vilne of hay the’ production of good, abunda! nt, „and wholesome 
considerable body of men, women, & ind children else- | (;, e, the price at wlich it can don, wh 
where in the -— The whole inquiry, Iam клн, | {о be consumed upon the land) be 6 Ah 70s. а ton, | the supply of brewers grains is во abundant, it being 
to say, has led me very mater ria n to alter these -— the milk c can be produced in e to | the — 9 all the year round wherever milk 
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not be а nuis& vont a nuisance t. this the ken. 0 statistics of other ipu et pretty | markets for Mars and for hay exist, and where Grass 
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made in them is Mer than what is delivered at our Christianin, v Tublishe he а Beute | cowhouso for 20s. to 25s, а ton, the means of keeping 
railway stations from the РЕ it is a wiser, | (p. 102 ЖОН show at. in 1803 and 1864, Fede cows are especially good. Here, too, we have that 
cheaper, and better thing t hea Mengal gua e 
ое y the few miles -— to the han hat|a high premium en keeping cows in dition ; 
0 cairy o Sixth меч жек, of tbe e с ке ino, in à all 999 tons p eve du eg viz, in there is here the best market in "e Ко M cattle of 
20 or 30 fails from the country. Ibelieve that etn uring 120 days of summer, зар. Turnips, hay, all kinds, it they are fiù for the butcher, and WM 
n London cowhouses are and may be Dealthily and апа IR] wita alittle cilaka, during the other 245 days | as poor a market as there is anywhere for 
comfortably kept—nowhere more so—and that ma ат This is at the of 100 gallons for cows; moreover - the risk of infectious б nie 
f loss by disease is not greater here than in the leri 17 peii of hay, or Lor t Old. т ena ir Aan, crowded cow whouse, makes 
hio, ard — 3 Lond and LT believe alone. Butthe cows (Ayrshire and Las cows) were | - pe * а? емі EA rdi n to ke T 
erto, in point oi fact, London, yas 1 least 100 gallons above the average in their annual | his stoc in fa ening con ition, thai y may 
iod; has af produco "PS E le at a minute's notice. And all these circum- 
milk than the average of iere villages. eed ce half-penny or Tid. per gallon, however, stances secure the best feedit айор! 
These conclusions will startle and perhaps disgust | M. not pes the risk of loss by disease and death.— | much better feeding than satisfies the ordinary country 
some who may bave come here expecting. a wholesale | Mr. Га lin, of Stapleford, near Tarvin, Cheshire, tells dairyman. І have по doubt, therefore, that the milk 
mmnation of th ielded by a London cow is better than that which 
all its presumed abominations of fil. hy eowhouses. and. was about : per cent, in "gene eral, 60 per cent. fro ] ld prod d dinary Gloucester- 
Alulterations. I believe them, neverthele be | during two years Ti. the time, and sire or Cheshire management. 
iaevitable by any one d Shall give ho eco di 15s. a cow for loss of milk on four separate Occasions X CowHovsm 
to а fair examination of the subject. They are the prem се — disease. Putting all this крй, 
conclusions simply of an agriculturist anxious cibo the | his loss has been 86l. a- year over the 20 yi What, then, is a London cowhouse! and what the 
best food should be produced and offered to the con- | question, (s Sent. 12 per cent. on the Sa of paye naturo of the mauufacture—as we may call it—which 
sumer, Medical men, who are p ionally interested в | carried on in it? 
re professionally i 
not only in people being well fed but in their being Mr. McAdam tells me, that out of 1500 cows which DUSS cow: -house de be, and often is, a piece of 
kept free from active sources of mischief to their | y ill l-conditione old : stabling, vitl а sort 
health, may їзїї upon й that animals, using and the past 15 years, 19 have died and 35 1 
spoiling so uch more go эт men, should not be | at а loss of 9/. pem бор pleuro- S: ; two have ehe and Miis stall йош : wei d А E st apart, 
raps ing 
jose in densely ulated districts. And | di Pti foot-and-mouth disease, апа 21 have died furnished with ropes or 
сап quite understand "ile onaga eto with from other paree "The foot -and - mou! ,| rings, so к i^ tie u i Kaien geet 
соате усана officer of a dis trict moreo пресме 200 cows in this time (killing in| foor is roughly causewayed, and there is 
him of the cases "yis ting probably in a | lengthwise down it, parallel with the manger, and a 
fat loss of 10 Q.000 gallons of m The whole 1058 | Ше more than а cow's length from it, "The house 
а Pel nis rm em himself i must have exceeded 13007. or оор in the 15 years,| may be only wide enough for a single row of cows, or 
ininstances'known to me he has been) thwarted, when | much less per cent. t the other quoted case.|there may be one on eitber side, with the gutter between 
he endeay, vours to sec he dismissal from a thickly | And to th f food, 7M. per gallon, there | {еш for the drai о . Таш пот 
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o make it from Grass and from hay at about | dwelling h houso, na leads you into a small back 
ае а а ore, this aspect of the subject | 37. per ton, at least 8d. per gallon.—1If cows are sold | yard, lled ты, this poor shedd There 
(though I can fore resce that it will'be чоду рн atem | after seven or eight months milking, it will be at the | may S a yp or the dung, a, of some sort 
ubseque on), | cos probably 57. | for Le чё 
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саки he milk being made near the consumer, while ie consumption of food would probably be j:venient corner—at pen Dus is room 
covhouses er er APR be ab least 730; and th SETUP ihe lov, 
in the t t house | being 530 ons, WO| east ; and the | now із a very rare exception. e roof is either low, 
тей об oett arn to ped a Abi rua e igi the 200 xi A E m рагі the cost of this 5L, | with plenty of ventilation through its loosely-l 
Ves ling-house next к, m уге conditions of the or at 6d. a gallon, the w le produce of the year | tiles, or if higher, there is a “ tallet ” or floor overhead 
Arrangement are no doubt best observed w ight not cost mo! MD Ls gallon ; but the risk | where hay and other food is placed, and in which wide 
{а i spaces are 1 
One-storied, with an animal be obta under | the 
al feet of га and prece as it almost | ordinary country managemen where cows are ke „pt for | Pancras uS T "the cowkeeper wishes {о avoi 
"уз does, проп а yard, will not, advantageously to!five or six years upon an average, an and fed in the! opposed for a renewal of bis licence. There are 
