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less than fifty shillings a cow, with a good calf by herfide, which I always disposed of as soon as I could. Youobserve, that I make too good an use of the milk toaflord the calf his share of it: 1 generally keep these cowsabove twelve months, and then felling them, sometimesfor sour pounds a piece, I stock myself with such that arenew milched. I observe this rule every year, and thetrouble is sufficiently rewarded by the advantage it bringsnro ; for besides the profit I make by selling dearer than! buy, I avoid the incovenience of having any thing todo with bulls, and the consequences; so that I alwayspreserve my cows in their full milk, and find it no un-common thing for one of these milch-cows to be milk-ed twice a-day, and afford a gallon and a half at a meal.four hundred of these cows will cost a thousand pounds ;and you will find, that coming from a poor pasture to a^ ,c h, they will prosper and increase both in milk and size.In eight convenient places about your hundred acres letthere be built eight thatched sheds ; a little rising in thefidddle to carry off the water; the height may be tenfeet, and the breadth thirty ; each of these sheds shouldbe a hundred and twenty-five feet long, and, under thehighest part, directly in the middle, you must raise afi'ght partition, lathed and plaistered, which serves tosupport the ridge of the roof, while the two sides are fuf-tained by square wooden posts, about eight feet high,und placed at proper distances.

" On either side of the partition wall let there be fixeda kind of a rack, like those in stables, which is to run the■whole length of the filed, and must be placed as high asa cow can reach her fodder from. The shed must nextdivided into stalls, like those for stone-horses, and eachstall will be abov;e -five feet broad; the length of thesestalls must be exactly fitted to that of a cow, that a crossbar, being-.placed at the outward end, may keep thebeast from running backwards : thus every shed will holdufty cows, five aud twenty on each side of the partition :to every one of these sheds you must appoint a man,whose business it will be to clear the place, and carry offme dung ; as also to mow the faintfoin every day, andg've it to the cows in the rack before-mentioned : this171311 beginning at one end of his proportion of ground,and going gradually on to the other, the first place willa ways be fit to mow again by that time he has gone..rough his whole division. Your cows are thus fed atsecretion, with neither too much nor too little they are!l 0t Pestered with the scorching heats, nor troubled with, e st 111 gi n g-fly, which, in open pastures, often makes“ em wisk about, and trample down more grass than theyeat « .At each end of every shed you must build a slightr °° m of brick, thirty feet square, and ten feet high,which is to be divided, the cross-way of the shed, intowo partitions, each fifteen feet broad, and thirty feety n g ; that which joins the cow-house must be paved with. es> , alu ! ls t° serve for a dairy ; the other must be floor-dai 30 ^ Endowed, and is to be a lodging-room for tbeis r ^" rna, ^ s ' Every filed will require five maids, thatr - t0 cvery ten cows one dairy-maid; fewer mightn ? > but it is better to exceed, than fall short in thisrrJvf v T hus eac k dairy will have two or threea j-'. s . elon 8 ln g to it, whose lodging will be the roomboth'^su’’ ani * w k°k care is to extend to the filed or.^, 1 . , l “ es the partition, to the five and twenty cowsn the nearest to their station. All along bothlet fh ° *k 6 P artlt *on, at about a foot above the ground,ere be fixed, close to the wall, a strong pipe of lead,

a little less than an inch diameter; both which pipes,being somewhat raised exactly in the middle of the shed,must have a gentle and almost an invisible descent fromthat rising to the dairies, through the wall of which theirnether ends are to be brought, and there wrought intoone another, that whatever descends through them, intoeither of the dairies, may have issue but at one mouth.This mouth of the pipes must be made very small, and-neatly fitted into the hollow end of a strong wooden axle-tree ; which, whilst it is turning swiftly round the mouthof the pipe, may by no means strain it by the motion,but receive, into its own hollow, the milk which descendsthrough the leaden pipes, without spilling any, and passesso far through a wheel, or vessel like a barrel, only muchlirger in its circumference. The axle-tree, which thisvessel is to turn upon, is bored very full of round holes,through which it delivers the milk into the vessel, as fastas it receives it from the pipe.

“ The vessel must be capable of containing, at least,three times the quantity of milk which it is designed toreceive; and there must be six wings, or thin pieces ofwood, glued on edge-ways to the wooden axle-tree,whose length and breadth must be so contrived, as to leavea free space of six inches at either end of the axle tree,and a foot between their edges length-ways, and thesmooth inside of the vessel; in the most convenient partof which must be contrived a door, to open and shutdown upon occasion, as closely as if there was none.This door will perform its work -very neatly, if you linethe inside and edges with some kind of doth, which iscommonly used in the pressing of cheese. The other so-lid end of the axle-tree must extend itself about five feetlonger ; and the whole length may be supported by squarewooden posts, and turn in their tops, which are to bemade hollow, and kept greased for that purpose. Thisend of the axle-tree is to be fastened into a wheel, exact-ly like those which are used in many places for roasting ofmeat. The diameter of this last wheel must be withinsix inches of the height of the dairy, and two or threelarge dogs being put into it at a time, will turn it with ex-traordinary swiftness : the dogs are easily taught, andwill at last take delight in the exercise. 1 have broughtup a large buck to the practice of this labour, and it iswonderful to fee the force with which he runs round anhour or two together, and turns a wheel of ten feet dia-meter ; but you must make your wheel as light as it canpossibly hold together.' I have but one thing more to fay,and 1 finish this direction ; pretty near that side of everystall in your shed, to which the maid must come to milkthe cow which belongs to it, Jet a hole, as small as willserve the occasion, be contrived by your plumber, in theuppermost part of the leaden pipe, to shut and open witha little screw, which screw, for fear of losing it, may befastened by a little iron chain to the body os the pipe. Ihave endeavoured, in the description of all this, to makemy meaning as plain as possible, and hope the reader will,with a little attention, comprehend the whole.”

The ingenious Mr. Lisle observes, that so much clean-ing and scalding is necessary, that the dairy farmers spendas much wood in fire for that purpose, during the sum-mer, as they burn for other purposes in the winter.

If the milk vessels are not kept clean they will be four,and the cheese will be sour before it can can come, andit will eat sour and choaky. A cold dairy is a greatmeans of preserving cream from turning sour. Themilk-houses should also be large, for otherwise the steamB b arising