Management of a Home Farm. 
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8t?. or Of?, per gallon will not be unfair towards the farm, nor 
unduly high for afibrding favourable results from its after- 
management at the dairy.* 
Milk Vessel. (A — Seat for spare bucket.) 
The quality of the milk, as Professor Voelcker's lecture well 
shows, is influenced by many different causes connected both 
with the treatment of the animals and the kind and quality of 
the food given. An extravagant supply of oilcake, as shown 
in Mr. Barthrop's case, may only yield an unchurnable article ; 
while if the animals are stinted in food they give not only 
little milk, but also of poorer quality. Accor.ding to theory, 
it would appear that food rich in oily or fatty matter would 
be extremely useful for producing rich milk ; but in practice 
we often see a different result, an increase of fat and flesh 
taking place at the cost of the milk ; whilst the very richest and 
finest-flavoured milk can be produced with certainty by the use 
of home-grown food only. Good meadow-hay (not over-heated) 
and carrots, with the addition of bean-meal, crushed oats, or 
bran, constitute the only viands employed. By the end of March 
or beginning of April we venture to substitute mangolds for the 
carrots, but not at an earlier date, or the flavour would be com- 
plained of. The roots are given washed, sliced, and mixed with 
hay-chaff. No home-farm should be without its plot of carrots, 
if only five or six acres in extent : they are useful for all kinds 
of stock, but especially for milking-cows and young animals. 
• A fair price for the house to pay for its requirements, but not for the bulk of 
the milk.— P. H. F. 
