DAIRYING, 
afford the dairy-man an adequate profit: therefore, in order 
to leffen the expeace of this fort of keep, other articles of the 
green and root kind muft be had aoe to; till near the 
period of calving they may be fupported on frefh threfhed 
ftraw in cribs in _the fold-yard, beginning with the wortt, 
valuable fort, they m with cabbages, 
turnips, or other biiilae forts of food, in bins for the pur- 
ofe. When withia about a month or fix weeks of calving, 
a little hay fhould be given at night, or the allowance of 
green food increafed, and on the day of calving they fhould 
be confined and fave warm water, and fora eee ae 
calving be very well fed with both hay and green food, in 
saat divifions for the purpofe. In this view the cab- 
bages are extremely valuable, as the produce on the acre is 
large, and they afford much mi ut care muit be taken 
to pi ick off all the dead and decayed leaves, se ay be 
- will con; 
is fuppofed as much w w aid for by the 
produce. In Mr. Dod{worth’s trials, as afferted by Mr 
Young in his fix months’ Tour, a co fifty ftone was 
caries as food for 
of the butters but they are a fort of food that affords much 
milk, and without this, or the preceding green food, a large 
dairy cannot, perhaps, be fupported to much rofit. 
larger weight of this food than the former is confumed in 
the fame time. 
In refpe&t to carrots and potatoes, they are very advan- 
ducing a large propor 
fequently ue for ae ae of the milkman than the 
sar arm 
© Chethire practice of dairying, the ufual dry foods 
are, pane to Mr. Ho'land, wheat, barley, and oat-ftraw, 
hay, and cruthed oats ; ae two former kinds of ftraw are, 
however, found to make cOw go dry much fooner than the 
Jatter: and there is, likewife, another effet, which is gene- 
rally admitted, as depending upon this fort of keep, which 
is, that the cream of the cows, which have been thus fed, will 
require more than the 
ftraw, notwithftanding, is confidered m 
than that of barley, as having lefs of fuch effects attend- 
ing it. 
Erhofe cows which, at the period of houfing, are not ex- 
pected to calve until rather late in the fpring, are fed with 
oat-ftraw, and fometimes hay, while they are milked ; having 
wheat, or barley-firaw, afterwards given them. "On the 
contrary, the more forward in calf .cows, on being taken up, 
owever, 
depends much on the price of the markets for grain. In. 
either cafe, the flraw fodder is continued until about three 
or four weeks before the time the cows are e 
calve ; when ae have hay in the proportion of from 
to two and a half hundred weights per week each cow. 
Avnd from the time the cows have caved, until they are 
turned out to grafs, a portion of ground, or crufhed oats, is 
quarts per week, to eac hopped ftraw 
i Frequently been made ufe of in years when hay has aia 
carce, by ma 
the morning, and houfed again about 
four in the ened throughout t e whole winter, in which 
they have, however, no fo 
many se a he after the cows 
ufually done, to ftand fhivering with cold in the field oa 
out fhelter or protection. 
It is ftated as a matter of much confequence, to turn the 
cows out to grafs in good aaa in order, as the term is, 
that they may “ ftart well ;’ € a cow is not in 
good condition, when turned out < grafs, or has been too 
much dryed with barley-ftraw, it is a long time before fhe 
gets into full milk. 
It is ftated by John C. Curwen, efq. in the fifth volume 
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tion in the daily expence of way, 
keep of a middling-fized cow is ftated to be only five-pence 
halfpenny per day, thus: 
flones. Ibs. d. 
Green food - - 2 o = of 
Boiled chaff 7 - 2 oO - 2 
Oil cake ground . re) 2 «= 2: 
Straw from fix to - oO 3 I 
Total weight - = Io =) «5k 
This is a method of feeding cows in the ftate of milking, 
which, from its convenience and beneficial effects, is gee 
deferving of the dairy and cow-farmer’s notice 
ftated it more in detail in {peaking of the bufinels of he. 
milk-dealer, See Cow-Keeping. 
In refpe& to the practice of giving green food, or what 
Mr. 
of that It is a principal object, he fays, 
airy-farmer, o increafe the quantity of his milk, 
and continue it as long as poffible ; which can be no way: 
more effectually ae conclihicds than by the giving of green 
his cattle. The writer is, indeed, aflured, by dif. 
nee fenfible farmers, that by this means the milk a ses 
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