508 BUTTER-COWS

and itis of consequence to milk them thoroughly dry, not only because the last milk, or strokings, produces a greater quantity of cream than the first, in the full proportion of ten to one, but because cows are much injured, even ruined, by not being milked clean. This matter requires the inspection of the master, or a faithful deputy.

T have observed, that in SUMMER-FEEDING COWS at home, I did not obtain so large a quantity of milk as when they fed at liberty in the field; this arose, it is probable, from their want of exercise, which they ought to have had several hours in the day. Granting the disadvantages could not be obviated, it would still not be a valid objection against stall- feeding, since more cows might be kept upon the game quantity of food. The advantage of keeping them at home, or in a shady sifuation, in the dog- days, when they are often so harassed by the heat ‘and the gad-fly, neither suffering them to take their meat, or to rest and chew their cud, is very striking; and the hay which may be saved by the economical expenditure of grass, must prove a great comfort to them in the winter-season. It is among the first of

. agricultural objects, to reduce the price of winter- keep, and to extinguish the shabby pleas of starva- tion.

The few loose hints I have to offer on DAIRY- MANAGEMENT, are from my wife, who has been ac- customed, from her youth, to the superintendance of the dairy, as well as the business of farming and gardening in general. To speak of a dairy, as a mere auxiliary branch of the business of a corn-

farm, ten or twelve cows are as many, perhaps, as most

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