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The milk, was 

 better in quali- 

 ty than usual. 



Produce of 

 butter usually 

 had from milk. 



MtXkOD OF FEEDING COWS. 



make use of inferior barly to great advantage. A change of 

 food is much to the advantage of the deary. Potatoes steamed 

 would answer admirably ; but near towns they are too expen- 

 sive. 



By repeated trials it was found that 7 quarts of stripping!, 

 wine measure, gave a pound of butter, while 8 quarts of a 

 mixture of the whole milk was required to produce the same 

 weight. Contrast this with milk produced from the feeding of 

 grains, 20 quarts of which will scarce afford a pound of butter. 



The Agricultural Report of Lancashire, treating on the milk 

 in the neighbourhood of Liverpool and Manchester, states 18 

 quarts with a hand churn, and 14- or 15 with ahorse churn. In 

 a paper published by the Bath Society, 12 quarts are said to 

 give a pound of butter : but wether ale or wine measure, is no 

 specified. A friend of mine, who feeds his milch cows princi- 

 pally on hay, finds IS wine quarts will not yield more than 17 

 ounces of butter, and this upon repeated trials. 



The milch cows, treated according to my new plan, have 

 been in excellent order both seasons, and are allowed to be 



Comparative 

 statement. 



General nUmi 

 rical deduc- 

 tion. 



Cole seed I have found to be the most profitable of all green 

 erops for milk ; and it possesses the further advantage 

 of standing till other green food is ready to supply its place. 



To ascertain the benefit and utility of a supply of milk, both 

 to the consumer and the public will be best done by comparison. 



To prove this, let us contrast the price of milk with other 

 articles of prime necessity, and consider how far it affords a 

 greater produce from a less consumption of food. 



I cannot here omit observing, at a moment when Great 

 Britain can hope for no further supply of grain from the conti- 

 nent, and must look for and depend on her own resources for 

 feeding her population, every mean by which the quantity of 

 victuals can be augmented, is an object of great public concern. 



Each milch cow, yielding 6 quarts of milk per day, fur- 

 nishes, in the period of 200 days, 2,400 pounds of milk, or 171 

 stone of Impounds, equal to twice her weight, supposing her 

 in a state fit for killing, with a third less food, and at one half 

 less expense. The milk costs «£". 10 ; /whilst the same 

 weight of butchers meat at 6d. per pound would amount to 



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