DAIRYING. 
oper kinds w. Food for the Cow 
Pr 
er to nia cows give abundance of mili, 
and of a 
t 
cow e fed on very rich old paftures. 
n fome circumftance that does not reflect on eae 
ae managers. Hence it is, that the grafs of a farm is 
often blamed for the want of richnefs of the butter pro- 
duced upon it; when, if the circumftances were fully invef- 
tigated, it would be found to be occafioned by the unficil. 
fulnefs of the pee ga or the want of attention in the 
choice of eae ows. 
If, int e maeapen ent of the cows in the fummer ee 
the temperature of ae climate be fuch as to permit them 
graze a eafe ear Seog the day, wee thonld be fae es to 
fuch paftures at freedom the cows are fo 
much incommoded byt he heat, as to be prevented from 
ugh the day, they Ha in that cafe, to be 
open on one ee the roof being only fupporte 
the ae thinks, afford them fuch ef- 
In thefe cafes, the 
a8 a continued ftream of air eee the whole build- 
ing that would prove highly falutary to the cattle. When 
the heat of the day is over, and they can remain abroad with 
eafe, they may be again turned into the pafture, where they 
éhould be allowed to range with sna all night during 
the mild weather of fummer. See 
- Rudge, i in hie cod of the ma- 
herbage, or from th to be the moft 
fuited to the sgl Baar of producing good milk, without its 
being of a rank quality. 
n the winter keeping of the cows, there are different me- 
died: in ufe in different diftri@s; but in the fouthern parts 
of the ifland they do extremely well in warm fheltered yards, 
with open fheds, efpecially when plenty of litter, fuch as 
ftraw, ftubble, fern, or other fimilar materials, can be af- 
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foried for keeping the whole well bedded. 
diliri€ts, however, and wherey fu pp! v of hitter 
u 
ftalls, with railed aie and. funk pa saved floors inet 
atcly behind them, for receiving the dung and urine, 
thefe contrivances they may be kept perfeétly clean oan 
litter, and at the fame time be more warm, as two cows 
may be confined in the fame ftall. 
is ara clean and well SS out. 
o be of great confequence to the 
produce of a dairy, t - the cows 
Eve ae early in the feafon. 
fall off in the quantity of milk in 
iter From the 
ater. But in the acd parts of the ifland it is an rad 
or them ve 
above period is the ufual time, only a ma cows dropping 
their calves in ae or the fo owing m nth. 
With regard to the management of cows in fummer, ther 
is a fimilarity in since. every aifiet They are ually es 
on the oldeft paftures on the farm: when thefe are at a dif- 
tance from the farm-houfe, they are milked on the “paltures - 
but otherwife they are brought home morning and evening 
for that purpofe. 
ut in winter the dry cows, — is, fuch as do not give 
milk, are Sts on stash in tee w-yard ; while thofe that 
are in mi 
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chiefly on 
they tend to keep them in good condition, the quantity of 
milk is generally mae ae of dey quality, both in 
re{pe€t to richneis and flavo In fhort, the dairy-farmer, 
in every part of the ifland, will find it i his intereft to be 
attentive in feedi ing his ea fey ied the fort of food may 
e which he employs. may ated that of thefe differ- 
ent forts of an the ailibotion for fummer and winter may 
be in the following m 
For the fummer, red slacer, faintfoin, lucern, burnet, and 
tares, may be made ufe of with great t adv antage. But in 
employing the firlt, great care fhould be taken to guaid 
againft injury either to the animals, or the quality of the 
butter or cheefe being rendered of a bad kind or flavour by 
it. On poor chalky hills, he — will be of the greatett 
importance to the dairy-farm fhould 
fupply of food and go a grea 
found to milk well in this Seite ent, where proper atten- 
tion is beftowed in the foddering of them. It is f{uppofed a 
method that can hardly be too ftrongly advifed, by a writer 
in the thirty-fecond volume of the Annals of Agriculture, 
In Mr. Baker’s experiments, a middle-fized cow was foun 
to confume in the proportion of from ninety to one tivdied 
pounds of green lucern in the courfe of twenty-four hours, 
ut for winter, hay, ftraw, arate turnips, carrots, po» 
tatoes, cole, malt-grains, &c. had recourfe to. 
The keeping of cows with rile is a general too i to 
fford 
The falls fhould be kept 
