HEAR TADCASTER. 
acquire a gradually increasing - 
interest in her; so as to make Of cottagers 
him anxious for her preser- rentin S cows - 
vation, but not such as to involve him 
deeply, in case of her death, or to give him 
a right to dispose of her. In this way, the 
sum of £".15* would be sufficient to consti- 
tute a perpetual fund, in any parish, for sup- 
plying the annual premium -'of a cow for 
some industrious and well disposed la- 
bourer, as long as the landlord wiU consult 
his own interest, and afford the means of 
feeding her. Whether this object is to be 
attained by annexing ground to the cot- 
tages, or by letting to the cottager an ad- 
justment for his cow, or by supplying him 
with pasture, and a certain quantity of 
hay,t at an annual rent : or by making it 
* Upon supposition that the price of the cow were 
£.12. the donor of such a fund would have to advance 
£.8. 10s. the first year, £.5 the second, and £.1. 10s. 
the third ; after which the rent of £.3. 10s. paid for 
three years, for each cow, would produce, in future, 
£.10. 10s. a year: being (with the £.3. 10s. originally 
paid by the cottager) £.2 more than would purchase a 
cottager's cow every year after. The. additional £.% a 
year would, J presume, be sufficient to insure, for the 
year, the landlord's interest in the cows. 
* Mr. Burdon's cow-pastures are .closes of sixteen 
acres, for twelve cows each: he allows each cottager 
two loads of hay ; making the hay in small stacks of 
•four loads each, so that one stack serves two cottagers. 
He finds the system answer, both as to the improve- 
ment of ground, and the amount of rent. I can only 
say that, when I was at Castle Eden> I thought his cot- 
tager's hay stacks and cows the most pleasing ornaments 
of a very beautiful place. 
