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would very well admit of feeding them where they 

 grow. My reafons for preferring this latter method 

 are, that there is no wafte of the turnips ; — that the 

 food comes equally frefh to the beafts every day; — 

 that the protection from cold and wet weather, 

 which the cattle enjoy in houfes, or well fenced and 

 fhedded yards, (as mine are) contributes very much 

 to their health and fattening, (much more fo, in- 

 deed, than is generally conceived ;) and that by this 

 means I collect and preferve all their dung to be 

 laid on fuch fields, and at fuch times as will be 

 moft beneficial to the enfuing crops. Thefe advan- 

 tages are all loft in the method of feeding off the 

 turnips on the fields ; for even half the dung of 

 the beafts, feeding in the fields in the depth of win- 

 ter, is loft by being dropt under the hedges or trees, 

 to which, after filling themfelves, they flee for fhel- 

 ter and warmth. 



The expence of carting away an acre of turnips 

 depends on the goodnefs of the crop, and is from 

 ten to fifteen fhillings; which, although it is much 

 more than faved in the prefervation of the turnips 

 from wafte, yet inclines the covetous and indolent 

 to feed them off the land ; for they flatter them- 

 felves they have no wafte while they have lean 

 fheep or bullocks, which will eat up the offal that 

 the fat ones have left, not confidering how much 



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