Addressing the labouring classes directly, Cobbett explains how a cottage family can feed itself well and independently: brewing its own beer, baking its own bread, keeping a cow, fattening pigs, managing bees, fowls and goats. Added here is The Poor Man’s Friend, his fierce defence of the rights of the poor under English law.
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