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Cows and Growing Stock. 



The remaining 8 acres, after excluding other plots and 

 a large garden, should be worth ;^io per acre as pasture 

 for cows in milk, and young growing stock, for the open 

 season, say from February to September ; this being equal 

 to ;^8o. I will now show how this is understating the 

 facts. A four-acre field which would hardly yield one- 

 half-ton of hay per acre when I took to my farm, has 

 lately yielded £2 a week in milk and butter for seven 

 months from two cows and one heifer ; besides supporting 

 for that period two other heifers, thereafter coming into 

 profit ; a total of £^6 from the four acres- But these were 

 Jersey cows, and good Jeyseys at that, such as average 

 lolbs. of butter weekly during the whole period they are 

 in profit. It costs no more food or attention to keep good 

 stock than is required for poor profitless animals ; then 

 why should a man bother himself with sheer rubbish on 

 which he is losing money daily? 



Folding Fowls on the Land 



just as you would a flock of sheep, is something which 

 many people are not acquainted with, and which our old- 

 style farmers do not understand, and it is doubtful if 

 they would take the trouble to do it. Well, this is how 

 fowls can be made to pay to-day, in large pens which 

 are shifted two or three times a week regularly and_ 

 evenly over the land ; so that where formerly half-a-ton 

 of hay was secured, two tons and more is now the yield. 

 Even in this district wherefrom a hundred tons of dead, 

 fattened fowls are sent up from one station weekly, the 

 author is probably the only breeder who thus shifts his 

 chickens over the land in movable pens. A thirty acre 

 farm may easily carry 



