METHOD OF FEED ING COWS. 19^ 



general practice, a very ample profit is to be made, equal, i 

 not superior to that made in any other season. 



I believe the principle will hold good equally in all situa- 

 tions : my experience is confined to the neighbourhood of a 

 large and populous town. 



The price of milk is one-fifth higher in winter than in sum- 

 mer. By wine measure the price is 2d. per quart new mi!k. 

 Id. skimmed. 



My local situation afforded me ample means of knowing ^Qcal situation 

 how greatly the lower orders suffered from being unable to "^ the author, 

 procure a supply of milk ; and I am fully persuaded of the 

 correctness of the statement, that the labouring poor lose a 

 number of their children from the want of a food so pre-emi- 

 nently adapted to their support. 



Stimulated by the desire of making my farming persuits con- Experiments of 

 tribute to the comfort of the public, and of those by whose a different 

 means ray farm has been made productive, I determined to try fcedin'r. 

 the experiment of feeding milch cows after a method very diffe- 

 rent to what was in general practice, I hoped to be enabled 

 thereby to furnish a plentiful supply of good and palatable milk, 

 with a prospect of its affording a llxir return of profit, so as to 

 induce others to follow my oxample. 



The supply of milk, during the greatest part ot the year, 

 in all the places in which I have any local knowledge, is scanty 

 and precarious, and rather a matter of favour than of open 

 traffic. 



Consonant with the views T entertained of feeding milch Provision, 

 cows, I made a provision of cabbages, comm.on and Swedish 

 turnips, kholrabi, and cole seed. I made use also of chaff, ■ 

 boiled and mixed with refuse grain and oil cake. I used 

 straw instead of hay for their fodder at night. 



The greatest difficulty, which I have had to contend with, 

 has been to prevent any decayed leaves being given. The 

 ball only of the turnip was used. When these precautions 

 were attended to, the milk and butter have been excellent. 



Having had no previous knowledge of the management of a 

 dairy, my first experiment was not conducted with that fruga- 

 lity requisite to produce much profit. 



I sold the first season, between October 1804-, and the 10th The first exp<s 

 of May 1805, upwards of 20,000 quarts of new milk. Though ''™'^"^* 

 8^y return was not great, I felt a thorough conviction that it 



proceeded 



