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The cows that are drafted are milked until thev ai'e sold, 
■svhich is usually on the 18th of Januarv, at Barnet Fair. They 
are well fed with cake, and go off in good store condition. 
The dairy cows go out to grass permanently on the 1st of 
^lay, and receive no extraneous food, with the exception some- 
times of a few vetches, until the following winter. 
The heifer-calves are well cared for the first year, and after- 
wards depend upon the natural resources of the farm. 
There are no sheep bred on the farm or bought in. 
Fiffs are fed up to 10 score, and 140 to 150 disposed of in the 
course of the year. 
Horses are light, but active, and well adapted for the road- 
work required by a dairy-farmer in fetching or removing his 
produce. 
The roads and fences are well cared for. The hedges, ori- 
ginally of a very rough character, have been trimmed well, 
and, without being cut low, are neatly kept.' The ditches also 
are well cleaned out, and the outfalls of drains by no means 
neglected. 
Manures and Food purchased. — The outlay in artificial manures 
is insignificant. That for corn and cake would amount to some 
500/. per annum, the larger proportion being disbursed in meal 
for the feeding-pigs. 
Cottages and Labour. — There are no cottages on the farm, 
and the rate of wages is 14^. per week, with '2 quarts of cider 
per day. 
Of Air. Day's management we cannot speak too highly. 
Under the most disadvantageous circumstances he produces 
very great results, and there is nothing about his farm that is 
not carried out in the most effective way. The same remark 
fairly applies also to Mrs. Day's internal management. 
Notes on the Dairy Management at Ouhley Farm. Bj- E. Little, 
of Lanhill, Chippenham. 
jNIr. Day's farm was exhibited under peculiarly disadvantageous 
circumstances. In the first place, Oubley is an out-of-the-way 
farm, in an out-of-the-way part of Somersetshire ; it is situated 
almost close under the north-west side of the Mendips. Sand- 
ford, on the Cheddar Valley line, is the nearest station, and is 
, 8 miles distant. The road to it from the Bristol side in a 
I -wet season is impassable on foot, and is marked by graduated 
posts, to show the traveller the depth of the water he may 
have to pass through. In the second place, the farm is very 
scattered, there being only a few pasture fields near the house : 
and a portion of the pasture is situated on the top of the 
