James 2018.

COTTAGE ECONOMY:

CONTAINING

Information relative to the brewing of BEER, making of BREAD, keep-
ing 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, Instruc-
tions 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.

BY WILLIAM COBBETT.

A NEW EDITION.

LONDON:

PUBLISHED BY WILLIAM COBBETT, 183, FLEET-STREET.

1828.

CONTENTS.

No.

1. Introduction.

To the Labouring Classes of this

Kingdom.-Brewing Beer.

2. Brewing Beer continued.

3. Making Bread.

4. Making Bread continued.-Brewing Beer.-Keeping

Cows.

5. Keeping Cows.

6. Keeping Pigs.-Salting Mutton and Beef.

7. Bees, Geese, Ducks, Turkeys, Fowls, Pigeons, Rab-

bits, Goats and Ewes, Candles and Rushes, Mus-

tard, Dress and Household Goods, and Fuel, Hops

and Yeast.

8. Selecting, cutting and bleaching the Plants of

English Grass and Grain, for the purpose of making

Hats and Bonnets:

9. Constructing and using Ice-Houses.

COTTAGE ECONOMY.

No. I.

INTRODUCTION.

To the Labouring Classes of this Kingdom.

1. THROUGHOUT this little work, I shall number the Paragraphs, in order to be able, at some stages of the work, to refer, with the more facility, to parts that have gone before. The last Number will contain an Index, by the means of which the several matters may be turned to without loss of time; for, when Economy is the subject, time is a thing, which ought by no means to be overlooked.

2. The word Economy, like a great many others, has, in its application, been very much abused. It is generally used as if it meaned parsimony, stinginess, or niggardliness; and, at best, merely the refraining from expending money. Hence misers and close-fisted men disguise their propensity and conduct under the name of Economy; whereas the most liberal disposition, a disposition precisely the contrary of that of the miser, is perfectly consistent with economy.