E-text prepared by David Clarke and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net) from page images generously made available by Internet Archive/American Libraries (http://www.archive.org/details/americana) Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the original illustration. See 32863-h.htm or 32863-h.zip: (https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/32863/pg32863-images.html) or (https://www.gutenberg.org/files/32863/32863-h.zip) Images of the original pages are available through Internet Archive/American Libraries. See http://www.archive.org/details/cottageeconomyco00cobb COTTAGE ECONOMY; CONTAINING INFORMATION RELATIVE TO THE BREWING OF BEER, MAKING OF BREAD, KEEPING OF COWS, PIGS, BEES, EWES, GOATS, POULTRY, AND RABBITS, AND RELATIVE TO OTHER MATTERS DEEMED USEFUL IN THE CONDUCTING OF THE AFFAIRS OF A LABOURER'S FAMILY; TO WHICH ARE ADDED, INSTRUCTIONS RELATIVE TO THE SELECTING, THE CUTTING AND THE BLEACHING OF THE PLANTS OF ENGLISH GRASS AND GRAIN, FOR THE PURPOSE OF MAKING HATS AND BONNETS; AND ALSO INSTRUCTIONS FOR ERECTING AND USING ICE-HOUSES, AFTER THE VIRGINIAN MANNER. TO WHICH IS ADDED THE POOR MAN'S FRIEND; OR, A DEFENCE OF THE RIGHTS OF THOSE WHO DO THE WORK, AND FIGHT THE BATTLES. BY WILLIAM COBBETT. New York: Published by John Doyle, 12, Liberty-St. Stereotyped by Conner & Cooke. 1833. Entered according to act of Congress, in the year of our Lord 1833, by John Doyle, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the Southern District of New-York. CONTENTS. No. I.--Introduction. To the Labouring Classes of this Kingdom--Brewing Beer, 5 II.--Brewing Beer, continued, 23 III.--Making Bread, 41 IV.--Making Bread, continued--Brewing Beer--Keeping Cows, 59 V.--Keeping Cows, continued,--Keeping Pigs, 73 VI.--Keeping Pigs, continued--Salting Mutton, and Beef, 86 VII.--Bees, Geese, Ducks, Turkeys, Fowls, Pigeons, Rabbits, Goats, and Ewes, Candles and Rushes, Mustard, Dress and Household Goods, and Fuel, Hops, and Yeast, 98 VIII.--Selecting, Cutting and Bleaching the Plants of English Grass and Grain, for the purpose of making Hats and Bonnets--Constructing and using Ice-houses, 122 ADDITION.--Mangel Wurzel--Cobbett's Corn, 151 INDEX, 158 COTTAGE ECONOMY. No. I. INTRODUCTION. TO THE LABOURING CLASSES OF THIS KINGDOM.