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5 gallons of rich milk every day since calving till the heat of 
mid- August, and now it is cooler again she is coming back to 
her quantity. Up to the first week of September, she has 
yielded 12 lb. of butter weekly. 
Pigs for several years past have been the most profitable 
animals on the farm, and while all the food they eat is of so 
little value when sold as grain, they will continue a good 
investment ; at the same time it does not answer to be led away 
to take up any particular hobby too extensively. A farmer 
near me, seeing that bacon must be dear, purchased on the 
market a considerable number of large store hogs to fatten, with 
the result that swine fever broke out in the herd, entailing a 
very heavy loss, instead of the anticipated profit. Of course 
this was an unforeseen misfortune that might not occur again. 
I trust that the foregoing remarks and suggestions may pos- 
sibly be of some little service to those who may give the time to 
read them. I do not for one moment put them before the reader 
as anything new — nothing is new — but rather as old truths 
revived, and with a view to induce my brother farmers to think 
out the matter, each for himself, and probably thereby arrive at 
some system, or plan, much more suitable to the requirements 
of his own case than anything here set forth. 
H. Simmons. 
VII. 
The question is “ How best to provide for the wintering of our 
usual quantity of stock ?” I say “ usual quantity,” as to me it 
appears ruinous to sell at the present low values, if farmers can 
anyhow see their way to holding on till the dread of a severe 
winter has passed, and prices have hardened. Some may think 
that, after so dry a summer, we may have before us a mild open 
time, through which stock may pull with not much difficulty. 
But it is only reasonable to ask what will take place if we have 
to face a medium, or, worse still, a severe and lengthened winter. 
As a matter of prudence we must provide not only for winter, 
but also for the possibility of a sharp winter. If roots should be 
injured by frost, there is no haystack and very little straw to 
fall back upon. After all provision has been made as to catch 
crops, silage, &c., and the greatest possible amount of stuff fit 
for consumption has been grown, the next point for considera- 
tion is, how to economise in the direction of bedding or litter. 
Fortunately, the straw from our corn crops, although exceedingly 
short, is good and sweet. On this, indeed, we place our reliance. 
We cannot do much without roots, but we are still worse 
off with neither hay nor clean straw. Possessed of the latter, 
