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^ Itdeferves to be noted, that the fpring of 1784 

 was fo backward, that in the country here alluded 

 to, it was near the middle of June before the grafs 

 was fuiEciently up to fupport the cattle, fo that they 

 had been kept near three months entirely upon this 

 kind of food, — a fufficient trial of its wholefome- 

 nefs. It deferves further to be remarked, that in 

 Highland countries, where great numbers of young 

 Cattle are reared, there never is a winter that fome 

 of them do not die, however plentiful the provender 

 is. In the prefent cafe, it is probable, the death of 

 the few that were loft might be occafioned by the 

 weaknefs of the young beafts, produced by pinching 

 them of food before the provender was done, ra- 

 ther than to the influence of the new food they were 

 put upon, 



I was afterwards told, upon enquiry, that in this 

 eafe the cattle were kept in the houfe, and the twigs 

 of the trees carried to them and given them in their 

 flails i but I afterwards learnt that the fame feafon, 

 another gentleman, who knew nothing of this expe- 

 riment, adopted a method that feemed to me to be 

 more fimple and oeconomical, and eafier carried 

 into practice on a larger fcale than the above. 



Having forefeen that he Ihould be fcarce of pro- 

 vender, he turned out all his ftock of two years old 



cattle 



