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anti with hay and turnips in winter, than what could be got fromlean cows, whose summer pasture was coarse, and who had littleother food, except straw in winter. A married farm servant,who has a cow kept by his master; or an unmarried servant,who gets three chopins of milk every day, will save nearly onethird part of his allowance of oatmeal, or will not use above12 pounds in a week, while he is allowed 17-i- English pounds,or two pecks Scots Troy weight of oatmeal. And if he get twoScotch piBts of milk, all made into milk porridge, he will sel-dom use more than one half, or 8|ths avoirdupois pounds ofmeal. Even when at hard work, 10-J pounds of meal will, withthe above quantity of milk, fully support him.

As a proportion of butcher meat is used in all towns, and in,-deed in most villages, this, along with potatoes and other ve-getables, is a great saving of meal. Hut in Scotland , in general,it is the additional quantity of milk, which both contains muchpalatable and wholesome nourishment, and enables the marriedfarm-servant or day-labourer, with a few bolls of potatoes, to sub-sist himself, bis wife, and two or three young children, withoutusing any more meal than 2J lib. per day, or 17 J lib. weekly.

In order to ascertain how much meal could be saved by usinga greater or less proportion of milk, the writer of this paper de-sired his housekeeper to give his servants, for one day, nothingbut milk porridge, made very thin with oatmeal, and boiled froia20 minutes to half an hour. The result was, that three men,two boys, and two women, with nine pints and three mutchkinsAberdeen measure (which is 105 cubic inches to the pint), or971ith cubic inches, (a trifle more than three English wine gal-lons), and only six pounds avoirdupois of oatmeal, were abund-antly supported for 24 hours, or with breakfast, dinner, and sup-per. The following day, with half the quantity of milk, the samepersons required ll£ pounds of oatmeal, partly in porridge, andpartly in bread. This, at a time when oatmeal is high priced,would deserve attention ; and by making little cheese, and usinga great proportion of milk, the inhabitants of the country pa-rishes of Scotland , might be supported very well in a calamitousseason.

The usual allowance for a married farm-servant is, as abovementioned, 17j English, or 16 Scots troy of oatmeal, with ei-ther a covy. or a weekly sum for sap or liquids. Where he usesbut little milk, he requires 14 lib. weekly, or two pounds avoir-dupois per day; where he has a moderate quantity of milk, hewill consume 12 pounds of oatmeal; and where he has abundanceof milk, and lives chiefly upon thin porridge or brose, half hisallowance will serve hira.

A Scots acre of oats will, at an average, raise as much oats(after deducting the seed corn) as will yield 6J bolls, or 104pucks, at 8-|th English pounds per peck, being the cosnmon atr