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departure at large ; the dung in the Summer months being 

 mcitly confumed by infefts. This beneficial practice is alfo 

 attended with other advantages ; a lefs quantity of hmd will 

 maintain the fame number, and the horfes thrive much bet- 

 ter, as they fooner get themfelves filled, and, of courfe, have 

 more time to fleep and reil: j and, by being in the fhade, are 

 freed from the plague and teafing of flies. 



This practice might, in fome cafes, be alfo extended to 

 cattle. In many parts of Germany, their oxen are kept con- 

 ftantly in the houfe, or flieds, and thrive equally well with 

 thofe depafturing at large. 



A confiderable lofs of manure arifes from turning cattle 

 out of the fold-yard, in Winter, to water or graze : it is a very 

 roiftaken pra6lice, and tends materially to leflen the quantity, 

 as well as quality, of the fold-yard m'-niure, by the lofs oi 

 dung and urine, and treading, while they an^ thus out, in many 

 places, for feveral hours a-day. Every fold-yard, if pofhble, 

 ihould have water brought to it, and the cattle never fuffcred 

 to go out. 



There are many diftritls, where the above pra6lices are uri- 

 Isnown or totally neglected : to fuch, I hope, thefe few hints 

 may be of ufe. And am, &c. 



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