young’s TRAVELS IN FRANCE.

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The account of a dairy taken next door to me, in Suffolk , is complex, and fuch asnot one man in twenty keeps accounts particular enough to afcertain ; it may thereforebe ealily fuppofed, that greater difficulties occur in a foreign country, through the me-dium, not only of a different language, but of different manners and culloms. Thisaccount was given partly as an aftual one of fifty-five cows, and partly by calculation;but in fuch a number of cows, there will be feme dry; there will not be fifty-five calvesfold from fifty-five cows ; hogs muff, for fuch a produce, have fome corn given them,though not much ; and I lhould confider this eflimate rather as what a good cow oughtto do, barring accidents and exceptions, than as a fair average of a large number.

The expences, however, are high, as well as the produce ; among others, there arethe following to this dairy of fifty-five:

liv.

Chief dairy-man, the cazaro,-— Wages, - - - - 130

Five moggii of maize, at 20 livres, - 100

One ditto wheat, at 34 livres, - - 34

Half ditto rye, at 18 livres, - - - 9

One ditto of white rice, - - -44

One hog, of nolb. at iKf. - - 90

Lodging, fuel, fait, and butter,

The under dairy-man, fotto cazaro. —Wages, ... - 127-

Board in the farmer’s houfe,

Three men, at 70 livres each, • 210

3f moggii maiz, at 101 livres, - 210

£ ditto rye, at 3! livres, - - 63

| ditto rice, at 2£ livres, - "99

I ditto mullet, livres at 18 livres, - 27

Towards board, 20 livres, - - 60

Land enough for their flax,

Two children, for the hogs, at 30 livres, 60

Five faggots per diem, at 5 livres the 100,

4 livres if large, - - 60

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Here are above 44I. Englifh, without knowing at what to calculate the three other arti-cles ; probably they would raife it to above 20s. a cow. There is likewife the wear andtear of the dairy implements, fait, oil, and many fmall articles; befides hazard, and thelofs by difference between the fale of old cows and the purchafe of young. In regard tothe management of the cows, they eat in winter, that is, from the middle of Decemberto the end of March, nothing but hay, and the allowance is twenty one pounds oftwenty-eight ounces, each cow per diem; this is 2184 pounds of Milan, or 3559 poundsEnglifh, or about 1 \ ton. This Angle article of expence, without any other confider-ation, would make a very great produce neceffary, or the farmer could not live. Theymilk at break of day, and fometimes before it; in the evening, two hours before fun-fet: the quantity molt in the morning. The belt cheefe is made when the cows feedon white clover, which comes of itfelf the fecond year, where red clover was fown,.which occafions a vulgar notion here, that red clover changes into white. This fecondyear’s white clover is better than perennial meadows for cheefe. For one fortnight in.a year, they foil their cows, —the lalt half of March,—and the grafs goes thrice as far

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