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within the power of little farmers to procure, than 
moft other forts. Strongly imprefled with the idea 
of its utility, I tried it, but was difappointed—more 
T thought, from my own inattention than any other 
caufe, Not having a good opportunity of repeating 
the trial, the matter lay dormant till the winter 
1795-6. In the autumn preceding which, on men- 
tioning the fubje& to a neighbour who occupied a 
{mall farm, I was agreeably furprifed at his acquaint- 
ing me, that he had kept four horfes on the tops of 
furze. during.the winter of 1794-5. Determined 
now to give it another trial, I hired a ftout girl at 2s, 
a week, to cut the green tops of fome old furze, 
erowing on a hill abouta quarter of a mile from the 
houfe, and bring them in bundles ona pole toa {pare 
{table, whichI prepared: for the purpofe of cutting 
and threfhing the furze; here it was cut from an 
inch to two itiches long; with a cleaver like what the 
butchers ufe, and afterwards the fpines broken with 
a flail. My threfhing floor was a temporary one, of 
fix or feven cak boards, pinned down to four joifts, 
Jayed'on the pavement. A bufhel bafket of the 
furze thus prepared, was allotted to each horfe every 
morning inftead of corn; but, I believe, three horfes 
had generally only two bafkets; not becaufe it was 
confidered as fufficient, but owing to the tedioufnefs 
of cutting and threfhing, and fometimes from hind- 
rance of bringing in, by bad weather; perhaps too, 
from not being ufed to the work, and now and then 
_a little 
