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or oat ftraw, night and morning, which he al- 

 ways obferved to lay under fuch hedge of the 

 field as was then moft fheltered from the wind ; 

 that he turned them out in any month, in January* 

 or fooner or later, as they happened to be calved * 

 that he / never loft any of them, never had any of 

 them loufy, or that fcemed to require more care 

 or attention about them." 



This practice was fo different from my own* 

 and that of moft of my neighbours, that I en- 

 quired of fome of them into the truth of it, when 

 they all allured me, that the fact was as I have 

 reprefented, although they had not the courage 

 to follow his example; and that this man had 

 learned the practice from a former tenant of mine 

 who lived in this pariih, and did the fame, with 

 this difference only, that he ufed to carry to his 

 calves, whilft in the turnip-field, a quantity of 

 chopped ftraw of either barley or oats, which he 

 gave them in a trough night and morning until 

 they went to grafs, 



I cannot, upon the joint teftimony of thefe 

 people, have any doubt of the truth of thefe facts; 

 and admitting them therefore to be true, there 

 cannot, I conceive, be any method of rearing 

 calves attended with either lefs trouble or lefs 



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