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covered to begin to advance with vigour. Under 

 this nianagement I prefumc it may be kept for many 

 years, and yield full crops : but iinlefs the mowers 

 Ihall be particularly attentive, at the beginnings to cut 

 it as low as pofTible, it will very foon become im- 

 pofTible to cut the field with a fcythe, as the (lumps 

 will foon acquire fo much ftrength as to break the 

 fcythe when it happens to touch them. 



This is the befl: way I know of rearing whins as 

 a crop for a winter food for cattle or horfes. For 

 fheep, who take to this food very kindly when they 

 have once been accuilomed to it, lefs nicety is re- 

 quired; for if the feeds be fimply fown broad-cafl 

 very thin (about a pound of feed per acre) upon the 

 pooreft foils, after they come up the fheep of them- 

 felves will crop the plants, and foon bring them into 

 round clofe bufhes, as this animal nibbles off the 

 prickles one by one very quickly, fo as not to be 

 hurt by them. Sheep, however, who have not been 

 ufed to this mode of browfing, do not know how 

 to proceed, and often will not tafte them; but a few 

 that have been ufed to this food, will foon teach all 

 the reft how to ufe it. 



Another very ceconomical way of rearing whins 

 that I have feen pracftifed at large by another, rather 

 than experienced it myfclf, is as follows : 



Let 



