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^im: iiich were the views of the wife of my bo* 

 ibm — the friend of my heart, who fupported and 

 affifted me in all my purfuits. I now feel a melan- 

 choly fatisfadion in contemplating thofe objeds flic 

 pnce delighted to elucidate. 



Article V, 

 Of the Scotch Fir^ as a Food for Cattle, 



[By the Same.] 



TT is not in general known that any of our ever- 

 ^ green fhrubs or trees, except the whins^ [furze] 

 can be employed as a provender for cattle; but pro- 

 bably many more of thefe could be fuccfefsfully em- 

 ployed for that purpofe than is in general fufpedled. 



Cattle and flieep are known to crop the tops of 

 fir-trees when they can get accefs to them while 

 young; and thus many plantations of young trees, 

 when not fufficiently fenced, have been entirely de- 

 ftroyed; but whether that kind of food was whole- 

 fom.e or pernicious to the cattle, has not in general 

 been enquired into. 



We have indeed heard long ago, that in Norway 

 the cattle are often fed in winter upon the tender 



twigs 



