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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 CONDUCTINGOF THE AFFAIRS OF A LABOURER’S FAMILY; TO WHICH ARE ADDED,INSTRUCTIONS RELATIVE TO THE SELECTING, THE CUTTING AND THEBLEACHING OF THE PLANTS OF ENGLISH GRASS AND GRAIN, FOR THEPURPOSE OF MAKING HATS AND BONNETS; AND ALSO INSTRUCTIONSFOR 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,
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