Our Farm of Four Acres and the Money we Made by it

ad purchased the articles. We did not put down London prices, but country ones: thus, we charged ourselves with milk at 6 cents the quart, and butter 27 cents th

ecause we included the land in our rent. We mowed three acres, which produced rather more than six loads of hay.* [We always had good crops, as the land had been always well kept. It was not "upland" hay, but our man said it had

f that had to be rented apart from the house, the average price would be about $25. S

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"keep our cows better together;" so we paid a guinea for a ton of that vegetable. The first time we made butter after they had been fed with it, we found it had a very strong, bitte

e had plenty of milk, and the butter was as good as in the middle of summer, and nearly as fine a color. We did not make so much as when the cows had plenty of grass,-besides, it was now several m

y, and that the reader will have no difficulty in f

ed. Grains from the brewer and distiller are extensively used by cow-keepers in large towns, but they cannot be procured in

art any unpleasant taste to the butter. They are likewise found of potatoes unboiled; but these things are only requir