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Saxbam, with whom we pafled the gcater part of 

 two days. I cannot refrain fronn being fomewhat 

 more particular with refped to it. He fats about 

 180 black cattle a year; many of them Scotch and 

 Welch, feeding them in (tails all the fummer, by 

 cutting and carrying to them meadow grafs, vetches, 

 &:c. In winter he gives them a peck a day of 

 malted beans. He alfo feeds them with 



Malted barley; 



Potatoes ; 



Cabbages, and chafF or draw cut j ' 



Turnips, and ftraw not cut; 



Bean-meal and water ; 



Barley- meal and water; 



Dry bean-meal, 9 and, tbetii they are led to 



Dry barley-meal, ^ water, twice a day. 



Mr. Mure has erefted a circular building for 

 feeding 46 head of cattle, tied up at 31 feet afunder, 

 outfide of the circle, with covered refervoirs in the 

 centre for depofiting fodder, in inclement weather 

 more cfpecially. The whole was fitted up at a 

 fmall expence, being made of the thinnings of his fir 

 plantations, and covered with thatch; the cribs 

 watded or wreathed. The polls, to which the 

 cattle are tied, very litde above the crib. A gate 

 y 2 leads 



